Originally Posted by
jmmoric
Look in the POH.
A lot of Piper 28s for instance, doesn't have an indicator at all.
I love the "handbrake" style way more than the electric flaps in older Cessnas, but that's a personal preference.
Me too. Haha, but the handbrake is
the indicator !
I once owned a thirteenth part of one, the 140 HP variant, The beast was two years younger than myself. I did my PPL initial check in it with an examiner on-board. The handbrake stop mechanism was worn, so occasionally it would drop one notch down with a huge CLONK, which it of course did somewhere during the "climb-out". The examiner almost s... himself. I calmly said oops, sorry, don't worry, it does that once in a while, and re-extended. Thinking about it it was unfit for flight, imagine this happened just after rotation... Anyways, it's still flying around, now at the age of 56.