Poll (kinda'). Your Top Discretes preferences for Stick Grip.

[Dugaru]

I also thought it would be cool to have these buttons for convenience and had a comm flip flop there. Flying along on flight following and eventually wonder why I haven't been handed off in a while and no one is talkking. Call in, but no one answers. Look down and was on the previous freq; Must have accidently hit the button without knowing it. If I was on an IFR clearance bad things could have happened.

When making these decisions, please consider the consequences of inadvertant application. I have accidentilly hit these buttons many times in heavy turbulence and no longer put anything there that is either mission critical, will do damage or won't warn me when it happens.

Come to think of it, I also had a bad experience flowing from the inadvertent application of a flap switch on my grip.

My stick bristles with buttons etc. and looks like it came out of an F-4 Phantom, but the only ones I actually use are PTT, CWS, trim, and flaps. And I’d actually prefer flaps on the panel, I’m just too lazy to rewire.

 

[Desert Rat]

Thank you! I've been reading this thread wondering if I missed out on something by not having start on my stick grip. I have a fuel injected IO-360 and on Hot Starts - I have to start with Throttle Full FWD/Mixture cut off. I"ve wondered if having a start button on the stick would help. But I've had no issues so far, so not planning on changing anything. The main techique is to just let off the brakes if it momentarily surges forward.

What I did was run a conventional start circuit, and then a second parallel start circuit that requires arming a guarded switch on teh panel before the button on the stick is hot. It also throws a CAS message on the PFD "Stick Start Armed". Thats the only way I would even considerer doing it otherwise if you hit that button with the engine running it's going to chew some teeth off the ring gear. It also requires an additional relay up under the panel because teh stick buttons cant handle teh amperage required to engage the start contactor.

It all works fine, but like I said, in my particular application I don't ever use it, so I likely wouldn't do it again and could easily repurpose it for a smoke system or something like that.

You're not the first person who I've heard mentioned they have to hot start with the throttle fwd, but hot or cold, my plane starts just like a fuel injected 172: crack the throttle, boost pump on, shove the mixture in until fuel flow comes up, pull the mixture back to ICO, boost pump off, and crank away. I don't know why that works for some and not for others.