Service Bulletin (RV-10 Install Door Safety Latch)

[Janekom]

Tim wrote

I now have 26 hours on the plane, and I like the safety latch. The safety latch gives a very satisfying "thunk" when it engages... such that I know the door is properly aligned and ready for the main pins to engage. There's never any question about pin misalignment, no worry about the pins missing the guides and gouging the paint.

AMEN. Our 10 is not flying yet, but we have done it the Vans way and like it. The only difference is that I have made up a CAD drawing of the latch and then it was machined and anodized.

 

[pierre smith]

I received my Van's latches yesterday....

..and didn't want the tab sticking out into the airstream, so we came up with the idea of rivetting a piece of 1/2" angle aluminum perpendicular to the latch that will lay flush with the outside of the door.

Best,