Hand control STC

[Guest]

I’m looking for some help finding an STC for a fellow pilot who is a paraplegic.  Apparently some have existed at some point but he is having trouble locating it.  Anyone have any leads.

Clarence

Edited November 4, 2018 by M20Doc

[takair]

http://www.freedomintheair.org/

[bonal]

Look up operation prop. AOPA did a feature on a fellow that just got his CFI using their hand control products in this weeks episode of AOPA live.

[Marauder]

This topic reminds me of a WWII vet who lost his right arm flying a Lightning in battle. He was based at an airport near me and would fly his Comanche to our airport for fuel.

Always a pleasure to meet him on the ramp. A man who’s handicap was anything but.


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[kpaul]

8 hours ago, M20Doc said:

I’m looking for some help finding an STC for a fellow pilot who is a paraplegic.  Apparently some have existed at some point but he is having trouble locating it.  Anyone have any leads.

Clarence

http://www.freedomintheair.org/hand-controls/

this site has links for STC

[Guest]

3 hours ago, kpaul said:

http://www.freedomintheair.org/hand-controls/

this site has links for STC

Thanks,  I’ll forward this to him.

Clarence

[carusoam]

https://aopalive.aopa.org/?utm_source=altw&utm_medium=email&utm_content=L2&utm_campaign=181101altw

This should be this weeks AOPA live video... with the hand controls for the Cessna rudders...

See newly rated CFI Quincy Carr at around 3:00 minutes into the video. There is also a  short piece by the controls guys there.

Inspiring.

-a-

[Mcstealth]

22 hours ago, Marauder said:

This topic reminds me of a WWII vet who lost his right arm flying a Lightning in battle. He was based at an airport near me and would fly his Comanche to our airport for fuel.

Always a pleasure to meet him on the ramp. A man who’s handicap was anything but.


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There was a Spitfire pilot named, Bader, I think, who became a squadron commander and multi ace that flew with two prosthetic legs. We'll documented account of his exploits that included being shot down and becoming a prisoner of war. 

[thinwing]

The Luftwaffe and RAF cooperated in supplying him with a new prosthetic leg after one was damaged during a bailout over German occupied France.They air dropped a new one which he promptly used to attempt escape.He did this so many times,the Germans started taking his prosthetic legs from him every night

[Mcstealth]

That's cool.