Help: Spade Grip Brake Lever

[bolox]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe_mHveCsos

10.40 seems to show it best

[Sternjaeger II]

I don't think there's a set rule for the travel of the brake lever, it's pretty much an "ON-OFF" tap for the air to brakes, but obviously it doesn't go beyond the spade grip inner side, otherwise it would interfere with the other fingers.
A pilot that owns a Spit and a Hurri here in the UK told me once that even if on paper it sounded like a good system, in practice there's no way to modulate the braking, it's always done by small dabs of brake lever pressure. The main issue with these machines is that the drum brakes can overheat and stick, which would mean ending up with a nose down (and costly repairs).

[JG52Krupi]

Awesome bolox, thanks!

P.S. iirc I stumbled across a picture of you in a spits cockpit, they were on the ubi forum lucky bugger you

Thanks again for your help

[bolox]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

Awesome bolox, thanks!

P.S. iirc I stumbled across a picture of you in a spits cockpit, they were on the ubi forum lucky bugger you

Thanks again for your help

yeah that would be one of the few pics of me in existance
really need to get into a 109 to compare

so you planning on making a working spade grip?

[JG52Krupi]

Not planning, I am

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=34145