Beagle-Auster D5 Husky

[Matt Wynn]

i'm having to do the same thing with Baxterley, no AFCAD but i'm going to add an NDB or VOR somewhere nearby so it's easy to find... back on track, i'm really enjoying this Beagle-Auster... how many more models are left? only a couple surely? (i know not true blood Austers, but the bloodline)

 

[racartron]

I have to say that the Flaps do come down immediately as they are all manual and one pull with your left arm and down they come!

Martin

Ahhh, words of wisdom always clear the air. I did go back into my hanger and checked all zillion of my Auster variants and they ranged from 5.0 to 0.1 seconds. The majority were 4.0 seconds.

Command decision time: Leave 'em be. After all, the designers probably know best.

 

[molyned]

You're right Smoothie - not many left now, but there are plenty of equally interesting aircraft out there to keep me amused. Eggesford doesn't have the luxury of any nav-aids real or imaginary - not much point because the majority of these Austers don't have new-fangled devices like A.D.F.s etc - some don't even have batteries !.
Racartron - Martin put me straight after my early builds used the default flaps timing - so you're in good company (us Old-Timers must stick together ) .
They seemed to take the view ' if it 'aint broke, don't fix it'. I now know that only two deviated from the 'armstrong' flaps handle (I could be wrong?) - the A.O.P.9 had a hand-pumped hydraulic lever up in the roof (I set this at 4 secs) and the A2/45 had a hand-operated winding handle (5 secs) .
Cheers
Dave M(oly)

 

[racartron]

Thanks for the oldtimers support, Molyned. So the logical thing to do, is if I see that big ol' lever over my head, go with the binary instant solution. No problemo

 

[Sunny9850]

Since my Saratoga is a bit on the older side....having left the factory in '82 she does have the manual flap handle or Johnson bar similar to the Auster. Good for payload and maintenance cost as my friend Tom flying a much newer TC model can tell you where Piper went with electrical flap operation....I venture a guess it was purely marketing driving this decision. The PA28 series I think always had the manual activation.

With that manual handle extension time and to some degree angle is purely pilot controlled. Some guys rip on the bar as if they want to yank it out of the airplane..usually followed by some gyrations as the airplane re-adjusts to the new drag/lift scenario at it's current speed and the over-control of the hapless pilot pulling or pushing on the yoke as they yank on the Johnson bar.

Personally I like to do things smoothly....if the pax in the far back seat don't notice any change at all I am happy. So after making sure I am within Vfe or preferably slightly below I pull gradually up on the bar leaving the latching button free to capture the first notch with a light click as we get there. I have never actually timed it but I would say that 2 maybe even 3 seconds go by until the first notch is fully down.
As the flaps go down drag increases and speed bleeds off....and the overall pitch doesn't change much if at all.

:ernae:
Stefan