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A story with a question at the end

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This is something that I got to thinking about today while flying in southern Washington state. It was solid overcast and while flying the fantastic A2A cub I had to climb into IMC weather to get over some mountains in my path.

So here is the story. About 40 or so years ago there was a man here in Texas who owned a chain of farm supply stores scattered over a good part of Texas and Oklahoma. He had a small airplane that he used to travel to all of his stores, I'm not sure if it was a cub but I do know that it had very limited insturments like the cub. One day he got into some insturment weather conditions where he lost all visibility of the ground. Not being able to tell if the plane was in the upright state or if it was slipping or skidding, he knew he was in trouble. So, being the "do it yourself" type, he untied one of his shoes, took it off and tied it to on of the structural members at the top of the cockpit where it was hanging down in front of him. Using this he was able to tell if the plane was leaning to one side or the other and using it and the compass could tell if he was making coordinated turns or not. By his thinking the problem through and a little southern enginneering he made it onto the ground safely.

Here is my question, would it be possible to make a gauge for the cub that would be a popup window showing a shoe hanging from one of the overhead suppports which would act the same way as a turn and bank gauge? If the plane were to be skidding the shoe would swing to the outside of the turn and if slipping the shoe would swing to the inside.

I just got to thinking about this today and thought it would be something I would throw out there.
Mark
 
Hello,

Yes, its very possible to make a shoe 'slip indicator' or turn indicator. Using the shoe as the dial is easy enough.

You cannot make it look real though.

What you could do is make its background invisible and have the shoe show up in the center of the screen in the VC, but if you turn your head in the VC, it will turn with you, killing the realism.

If it had a 2D panel, it would look cool.



Bill
 
Thanks Lionheart. I just got to thinking about that, one of these days when I don't have to work so much I might try making it, but that day may never come.
Mark
 
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