My PA-28 has a ‘passenger seatbelt not fastened’ warning system. Years ago a renter pilot wrote in the tech log “Loud banging noise in flight”. The quarter panel behind the door still has the dints caused by the seatbelt flailing in the slipstream.
If it’s not pressurized or inflate for sound proofing, it will wiggle
I’d imagine one of the challenges in implementing a reliable warning light is that most GA doors are not exactly a good fit
Emir wrote:
DA42 has sensors on front baggage compartments doors as well
Good to know !
Ibra wrote:
It would be good to have something similar for bag doors, to avoid losing my possessions
DA42 has sensors on front baggage compartments doors as well.
alioth wrote:
ATC told them “Your APU appears to be leaking luggage!”
Funny, that would have been Steve Kennedy
“whatever you need to do, you can do” at 3:10
You can steer with the doors in-flight with the Auster :-)
Reminds me of a funny story I saw on AvWeb several years ago. An MD-11 was taxiing out, and ATC told them their aft baggage door appeared to be open. The crew, checking the instrument panel, saw no warning lights and told ATC “don’t worry it’s just the APU inlet door”. As they accelerated down the runway, ATC told them “Your APU appears to be leaking luggage!”
The DR 400 has an advanced audio and visual warning if you leave the baggage door unlatched……… as you increase the power to do the mag checks the door flaps open and shut resulting in a loud audio warning ( door banging ) and the visual warning of the door opening and closing.
The Tecnam P2006T has switches for both front and rear (pax) doors and annunciates on the PFD (G950).
Yes Diamonds have switches in front/back doors, in DA40 it used to give me false warnings in steep turns, it’s very useful for pax backdoor (less visible & will blow up if left open) and on front canopy it’s nice to have (same shared for LHS/RHS and will not go open even unlatched)
Columbia has pannel annunciator for latching the door as well as the pneumatic seal activation
It would be good to have something similar for bag doors, to avoid losing my possessions