Okay, so here goes. My son is a C 6/7 quadriplegic who has his sport pilot license. We just completed an RV 12 and I am starting to develop hand controls so that he can fly the airplane by himself. In doing that I need to add handbrake's. My question is, can a third set of master cylinders be hooked in to the current system or am I going to have to relocate the left seat brakes. I would really like to add a set of master's cylinders so that when I fly from the left seat I don't have to learn how to use the handbrake's. It's the old dog new trick thing. Thanks in advance.
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RV-12 BRAKE SYSTEM
- Thread starter jeterjim
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I don't see why not
There are already two hooked in series for each brake so adding one should work just fine; however, you would need one for left and one for right. You couldn't make one brake cylnder operate both brakes simultaneously using the existing RV12 set up unless your lever plunges both cylinders, left and right, at the same time
There are already two hooked in series for each brake so adding one should work just fine; however, you would need one for left and one for right. You couldn't make one brake cylnder operate both brakes simultaneously using the existing RV12 set up unless your lever plunges both cylinders, left and right, at the same time
Jim---we have a client who installed handbrakes in a RV14. Yep anything can be done.
Tom
Tom
