X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com ([24.25.9.102] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 1112690 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sun, 14 May 2006 01:59:48 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=24.25.9.102; envelope-from=echristley@nc.rr.com Received: from [192.168.0.253] (cpe-066-057-036-199.nc.res.rr.com [66.57.36.199]) by ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4E5x2TO005373 for ; Sun, 14 May 2006 01:59:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <446575A6.20500@nc.rr.com> Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 01:59:02 -0400 From: Ernest Christley User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-2.1.fc4.nr (X11/20051011) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Emergency Checklist References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Al Gietzen wrote: > > > It does seem that a mirror; or perhaps a miniature video camera > somewhere, giving a view of the engine end of the plane would be a > useful item. > > > A piece of reflective tape and a photo-detector would suffice to tell you that the prop is turning. Jim Weir is always looking for article ideas for his Kitplane articles. I'll throw this one at the wall and see what sticks. -- This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."