REFLECTOR: Door lock

[Joe Ewen]

John,
The right side is the same as the left.  Both can be locked with a key 
(Keyed alike) from the outside.
Joe


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Dibble" <aminetech at bluefrog.com>
To: "Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list" <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Door lock


> 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
>
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