What does this switch do?

What does this switch do?

  • Wings Stay On, Wings Fall Off

    Votes: 4 19.0%

  • Chem Trail On

    Votes: 7 33.3%

  • Weather Modification On

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • ADSB Off (the "Martha" switch)

    Votes: 6 28.6%

  • Passenger Ejection

    Votes: 5 23.8%

  • Area 51 Transponder

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Something to do with Transformers

    Votes: 1 4.8%
  • Total voters
    21
WDD said:
Thinking about having an avionics shop open the panel and rip out all the mystery wiring and clean things up. Although I can’t figure out why that should change anything except soothe my OCD.
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You can make some good progress on that yourself. Get under there with a DMM and start tracing and labeling wires. If you find an orphan circuit that goes from/to nowhere, remove it. Once you get the dead wires out, start looking at the condition of the components that remain. If you have a sketchy wire or terminal, you can replace that too. Do some bundling where it is logical. As long as you are careful and methodical, you won't harm anything, and you will learn a lot about your aircraft. Find an A&P willing to supervise so you can ask questions when unsure. Buy wire and terminals from Spruce and get a ratcheting crimper from Amazon.
 
That might be a fun project I haven’t thought of.

I could get some wire labels from Amazon. I would trace a wire from a breaker to a component or a switch. Then from a switch to an instrument, light, etc or into the great unknown. I’ll be limited in that I won’t have the panel front off, so it will just be what I can see while laying on the floor under the panel.
 
GeorgeC said:
Don't worry, you will likely find enough to keep you sufficiently busy and entertained that you won't consider it limiting ;)
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Yep. I pulled a bunch of ghost wiring from under my panel, wires that went nowhere. Over the years, everytime a radio or instrument or whatever got removed or swapped, a lazy shop just snipped the old wires and left them in place. It was an unholy mess, and it's still not great. I need to do more cleanup under there. Maybe when the weather cools off I'll get ambitious.
 
To discover what the switch does you must be airborne over water when you flip it.
 
It is a leavitright switch.


Pronounced, leave it right.

In other words, look at it and don't mess with it.

Sort of like a hammerfer.

What is a hammerfer you ask.??

Fer hammerin' nails...
 
Jim K said:
My plane had an extra breaker installed in the front baggage that was in the master switch circuit, presumably for theft protection. Because it wasn't in the logbook, and I'm not super concerned about someone stealing my plane, I had my mechanic remove it.
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A friend of mine who frequently flies to Mexico had his mechanic make a section of fuel line that he could easily replace when on the ground. He had one that was filled full of silcone sealant that he would install when he was parking the airplane and would install the normal fuel line when he was ready to leave. It worked, they didn't steal his airplane while it was parked. Instead they waited until he was taxiing to end of the runway, rushed the runway with a Vehicle or two and blocked him from taking off. They forced him out of the plane at gunpoint and took the airplane.

Brian
 
DaleB said:
Pretty sure that if I'm ever flying at night in IMC, I'll eventually end up in an inverted dive. I'm trying to picture how a 4G inverted dive would work though. Wouldn't that be a loop?
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If you were inverted at the top of a parabolic loop - weightless - would you or the plane notice at that time if you were inverted?
 
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