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<< Please note the design of the Lancair shoulder harness is such that
without an inertia reel, you cannot reach the fuel selector while wearing the
harness.
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Only having over a thousand hours + in the Lancair IV, and having test flown
quite a few, and having trained the owners that still fly them, I can attest
to the fact that I have never removed my shoulder harness to change fuel
tanks, nor trained anyone to do so. It is a simple matter to lean over and
let the harness slide over your shoulder and reach the valve, when you sit
back up put the damn thing back over your shoulder. There is no reason to
disconnect your shoulder harness inflight if you are the PIC.
<<Comments would be appreciated.
Regards,....Dave Riggs>>
What exactly are you trying to accomplish other than self gratification??
You have made false accusations against a builder in your personal crusade to
punish him. You are going to raise enough shit that no insurance company
will consider insuring any of the "Fast Glass" aircraft, and to what end. A
lot of work has been done over the years to ensure that the Lancair aircraft
are insurable, and it will only take one individual out on a personal
vendetta to ruin it for all.
I'm sorry for the loss of all of our Lancair pilot friends, but there comes a
time when we have to consider that the end responsibility for the safe
operation of an aircraft stops with the pilot/operator.
If I read the last LNN correctly, you had flown and experienced engine out
problems with this aircraft. I don't keep copies of the LML but isn't this
the aircraft that was also having other engine problems ?? Why didn't you
discover in the aircrafts earlier flights that the aircraft didn't have the
stated capacity and, ensure that it delivered all of the fuel to the engine.
Unfortunately the blame or responsibility is borne not only by the builder,
but by the owner who contracted it to be built and did not "first hand"
observe and participate in its construction as the regulations require, or
was this aircraft registered with the FAA as being built by Kerner ???
I heard that someone went to the crash site after the FAA/NTSB had left, and
identified himself as a member of the NTSB to get the FBO to take him to the
site and sifted through the wreckage.
My comments are above Dave, and personally I'm tired of hearing yours. Lets
let the experts separate the pepper from the fly shit and let the blame fall
where it belongs, but without a lot of false finger pointing, cause we all
know where the other fingers point.
Mike DeHate (the original)
Builder, Test-Pilot, A&P, CFII,
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