REFLECTOR: Door lock

[John Dibble]

Joe,
With your setup, can you lock the door when you are not in the plane?  My external
mechanism defeats the lock, so it can't be locked.
John

Joe Ewen wrote:

> Using a key to relaese the latch sounds like a nice idea during normal
> operations; however, when working on my doors I decided to use the same
> external unlatching mechanism on the copilot side side as well as the pilot
> side.  The concern I had was: if a crash left occupants incapacitated and
> the pilot door was blocked, rescuers could not open the copilots door.  Hope
> the situation never occurs.
> Joe