Would You Fly

[SandburRanch]

if airplanes had the same quality safety switches as tractors?:laughing:

 

[blueriver]

I can see it now ... the Pilot gets up to go to the rest room and the seat safety switch shuts down the engine's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bird]

if airplanes had the same quality safety switches as tractors?:laughing:

Yeah, but would you own a tractor if it cost as much as those airplanes?:laughing:

 

[flyerdan]

What safety switches, the '46 Taylorcraft that I soloed in doesn't even have an electrical system.

 

[Redneck in training]

Not all airplanes are expensive. In fact they are in about the same range as tractors of the same HP. No. I wouldn't fly airplane with safety switches but I guess it is hard to get wrapped in the prop when siting inside cabin.

 

[firedog]

How do you pull a bushhog with one?

 

[grsthegreat]

The only safety switch my old Turbo Arrow IV had was an automatic gear extension if air speed got too slow. Supposed to prevent a wheels up landing. Glad it didnt have a seat whitch:laughing:

 

[KYDan]

Not all airplanes are expensive. In fact they are in about the same range as tractors of the same HP. No. I wouldn't fly airplane with safety switches but I guess it is hard to get wrapped in the prop when siting inside cabin.

I beg to differ with you about this. A new light sport airplane will cost between $80,000 and $165,000 for an 80 hp version. a new GA aircraft a whole lot more. Ultralights are a different matter, however, I don't know of any ultralights that have more than 65 hp, so I guess you could buy an ultralight for about what a new 50hp tractor would cost. Of course the government doesn't recognize ultralights as an aircraft, they are a vehicle that may happen to fly. I fly GA, light sport, experimental and ultralights too. It's something that I enjoy even more than seat time on the farm. I built my aircraft and it cost a whole lot more than my tractor although they are not the same Horsepower.

 

[mjw357]

The only safety switch my old Turbo Arrow IV had was an automatic gear extension if air speed got too slow. Supposed to prevent a wheels up landing.

I read a story once about a Piper that had that system, problem was for the pilot only one main wheel was going down, or maybe it was only the mains and not the nose. Anyway, it made it quite a challenge to do a belly landing. Forget how he got around it. Pulled the breaker for the gear pump?

 

[HarryVanderpool]

What safety switches, the '46 Taylorcraft that I soloed in doesn't even have an electrical system.

Isn't the stall speed on your plane around 30 MPH?
Doesn't get much safer than that!