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 Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:09 pm Post subject: Alarm systems for the RV-10 |
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You could also power up a com radio and play a
recorded transmission to the tower or perhaps a remote
mount transponder set to Hijack if the alarm system is
bypassed. That would get everyones attention.... 
You could also trip the ELT, but by the time they
finally showed up your RV-10 would be up on blocks and
thread-bare.
I think it is reasonable to add a simple system (not
like above) as long as the risk to you and your
certificate in minimal. I like your car alarm idea and
they are very affordable.
You could also use the alarm system to unlock the door
using one of the car servos but this would have the
risk of not being able to get into the plane in the
event of battery failure. It would have the advantage
of locking both sides and I guess you could crawl thru
baggage in a pinch. Standard factory manual door lock
for inflight. Let us know what you come up with!
Eric
--- "RV Builder (Michael Sausen)"
<rvbuilder(at)sausen.net> wrote:
| Quote: | This is an area a gave a very small amount of
thought to so far. Reason being because there is no
way I'm going to leave a 50k panel with an unlocked
door. I am more than happy to replace a broken
window or even an entire door if it might give an
extra few minutes of work to a potential thief.
Thieves don't want to spend anytime in the open and
will just walk away from a challenge 95% of the
time. But if they can simply walk up to an aircraft
and climb in, shutting the door behind them, they
will almost certainly pick that aircraft as a
target.
So I will use some method to restrict access to my
-10 one way or another. In addition I am planning
on integrating the door warning system with a run of
the mill auto alarm. I'm sure some people are
giggling but for less than the price of topping one
of the tanks I can put in a loud alarm that will
most certainly deter someone from targeting it.
Remember, deterrence is the best answer in almost
all occasions. An easy target has a much, much
higher probability of being stolen. There used to
be a show on Discovery, don't recall the name, in
which a pair of reformed thieves would go around to
peoples homes and show them just how quickly they
could steal them blind. In the show the one thing
they always tried to re-enforce was that a thief
will not spend any amount of time at a house that
they can not easily access and they would almost
always keep walking if they knew it was alarmed.
Just keep in mind the whole goal is deterrence
because nothing will keep someone from breaking in
if they want to. You just need to make it a less
attractive target. We have a lot of theft around my
in-laws ranch but no one has ever attempted to break
into my workshop. The primary reason is I made sure
everyone around knows there is an alarm system on it
that emails and pages a half a dozen people. I then
made sure that a few of the employees saw it in
action.
I may look like a dork when my aircraft flashes it's
position lights when the alarm arms but I will sleep
well knowing it will most likely be in the exact
same condition the next morning, especially if some
of you with no locks park near by. 
My $0.02 on the matter.
Michael Sausen
-10 #352 Fuselage
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