wfield0455

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I've been going through this exercise myself. In the past I've had a single switch for Dual Rates/Expo, 1 for landing gear and one for flaps. After thinking about how I could reduce switch flipping I've come up with the following that seems Ok to me. I use a 3 position switch and configure flight modes for cruise, half flaps and full flaps. I also use tflight modes to set dual rates and expos that I feel are suitable for each mode. I basically have the the first switch position as cruise with no flaps, the next as half flaps and the 3rd as full flaps. Since I tend to set half flaps on the down wind leg of a landing approach and select full after turning onto final, assuming I want to land with full flaps, I wanted to avoid having to jump across switch positions to get to a different flaps position. I've seen guys put cruise in the center and half one way and full the other but I didn't like that as I wanted to avoid flipping through cruise mode to get from half to full flaps. I also don't want the gear on the flight mode as I will often land with no flaps in high wind / cross wind situations so I have a separate gear switch.. Still not 100% sure if I want to continue with with flaps controlled by flight modes as for some planes I would like to have an additional mode with higher rates and different expo for aerobatics. In that case, it seems best to have separate flaps, gear and rate switches. I still haven't come up with something that I think will be ideal for all my jets yet but I would like to settle on a single scheme so my controls are always the same for every model. This is a subject that I think could be worth having a thread of it's own..