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Old 07-21-2014, 02:49 PM
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Thanks Wendell ! I have to send you some updated photos ...
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Thanks Bruce for a great idea. I copied your idea in my RV-7A project. I am placing the control handle in the instrument panel just above the throttle to help insure the parking brake will be off for takeoff and landing.

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Old 07-25-2014, 10:53 AM
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I haven't needed a parking brake yet. Maybe someday I will. Less weight without.
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Old 07-25-2014, 02:42 PM
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One of the aircraft I fly regularly has a parking brake system which is notorious for its lack of mechanical reliability. Most owners of the type avoid using the parking brake because it sticks on the "on" position, necessitating an very uncomfortable dive under the instrument panel in order to be able to move the airplane.

Because of this experience I was of a similar anti-parking brake mindset, then went to pay a fuel bill at an unfamiliar airport and turned around just in time to see the airplane start to roll away unattended. THAT got my attention! Now if I need to leave the airplane I throw a pair of balsa wood chocks on the nosewheel.

Needless to say, the aircraft we're building now has a hydraulic (Matco) parking brake in the works.
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