Cessna Horn too quiet

ost (Ditch) wrote in message ...
The only problem I see with increasing the noise level, is even if it is the
loudest thing you ever hear in the cockpit, pilots will sometimes tend to block
the sound out.
Just ask most of those who made an unintentional gear up landing.
When I was flying retracts (up to 15 flights a day), I would check to make sure
the gear was down and locked no less than 3 times before I touched down.



Was it here I saw this GUMP check?

G - Gear
U - Undercarraige
M - Make sure the gear's down
P - PUT THE DAMN GEAR DOWN!


Cheers,
John Clonts
Temple, Texas
N7NZ

G - Gear
U - Undercarraige
M - Make sure the gear's down
P - PUT THE DAMN GEAR DOWN!

There ya go!

In the AT-6 when downwind abeam the numbers after the break, it would start
with:
1. Landing Gear Down
2. Flaps down
3. Trims set (elevator and rudder)
4. Mixture Forward
5. Prop to go (we would wait until the prop RPM dropped after slowing down to
go easy on the governor)

On our modified base leg, we would run thru everything again and then short
final run thru it once more and this time bring the prop to full forward.

It was a quick flow that took only a couple of seconds each time we did it.
It's been over a year since the last time I flew the T-6, but I still wake up
in the morning with that checklist running thru my head!


-John
*You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North
American*

wrote in message . ..
I'm a member of a club that has a Cessna 177RG.
I just got checked out in it today , and the gear horn is waaaay too quiet.

Paul,

My first thought, before visions of modifications dance in
your head, is to make sure the durn thing is actually working
up to spec.

The maint. manual may provide specifications, someone in the club
may be able to borrow a dosimeter (noise meter) or the specification
may be an electrical output.

If the maint. manual doesn't provide specifications, the Cessna
type club almost certainly can.

It seems like there are a bunch of maint. issues in small airplanes
which become common and get "accepted" (clogged primers = don't
prime; Cessna nosewheel shimmy etc) instead of being properly repaired.

FWIW,
Sydney