Changed my Horton STOL with VGs and flap gap seals to a Sportsman STOL also with VGs.(removed flap gap seals)
Really notice the change and very happy with it.
Put the stall warning according to the template but now it starts making the warning noise about 19 to 25 mph before the stall, and almost all the approaches is quite annoying plus innacurate.

I was told to move it down more, better not not bend the tab but move the unit.
So will do that and start testing.

How many mph is a good way to have the stall warning making the noise?
Before ,when I had the Horton it was about 10 to 12 mph , even then a few times felt it was a bit early, but acceptable.
Will 6 to 8 mph be too close?

Here are my speeds , and when it starts making the noise.

I had my instructor write down the numbers.
Speeds are IAS

In slow flight

With no flaps goes off at 65mph (19mph before the stall)

With 10 flaps goes off at 62mph (22mph before stall)

With 20 flaps goes off at 60mph (22 mph before the stall)

With 40 flaps goes off at 58mph (23 mph before the stall)

The service manual for my 1957 Cessna 172 says to adjust the stall warning horn to go off 5 mph abave stall speed in straight and level flight.

That is exactly how I want to adjust it, according to what Cessna manual says.
I looked in the Service Manual for my 182 and could not find the info.

My favorite thing to do is completely disable the damn thing, any way possible. Bend it, tape it, or pull the f*%$#@! circuit breaker.

When installing the Sportsman STOL kit you have to cut a fairly large hole in the original leading edge as to allow for the tail of the stall sending unit to move up high enough. It was hard for me to cut those first holes that big on the first kits I installed. I like a stall warning light with a horn silence switch.

born2flyak wrote:My favorite thing to do is completely disable the damn thing, any way possible. Bend it, tape it, or pull the f*%$#@! circuit breaker.

That!

Unless you're flying a Cirrus. Then the warning should go off at least three times. 75 knots over stall speed in bad weather. 50 knots over stall speed in inclement weather and a wooden hammer hitting the pilot repeatedly at 25 knots over, in any other condition. At less than 25 knots over stall there should be a "whoop whoop" sound, stick shaker as well as a screaming sounds through the speakers.

Stall horn? I always wondered what that damn noise was.

Gump

GumpAir wrote:Stall horn? I always wondered what that damn noise was.

Gump

I thought it was a "fun-o-meter" buzzer!

GumpAir wrote:Stall horn? I always wondered what that damn noise was.

Gump

Isn't that when the Doctor, while being interview by the FAA, says " I couldn't hear the tower because of some horn blaring at me all the way to the ground."

The first plane I bought was a Cessna 150. I pay cash and get in the plane and fly away. Cruising along in my new purchase I look up and see a $1 bill rolled up and stuffed in the horn. It is a horn like a kids toy. I think "hey I got back $1 already on this plane", I pull the dollar bill out and the horn is going off in cruise. I stuff the bill back in. Who ever removed the horn before must have took the reed out and put it back in so that when you would "blow" the horn it would toot. Just like the kids toy. I switched it around so that sucking made the horn toot and it worked as advertized.

Skydive206 wrote:The first plane I bought was a Cessna 150. I pay cash and get in the plane and fly away. Cruising along in my new purchase I look up and see a $1 bill rolled up and stuffed in the horn. It is a horn like a kids toy. I think "hey I got back $1 already on this plane", I pull the dollar bill out and the horn is going off in cruise. I stuff the bill back in. Who ever removed the horn before must have took the reed out and put it back in so that when you would "blow" the horn it would toot. Just like the kids toy. I switched it around so that sucking made the horn toot and it worked as advertized.

I took off out of Anchorage Int'l last month in a one of the Cherokee 6's, and when I lifted off the stall buzzer sounded, and didn't shut off. Once out of the class C, I shut off the master. An hour and a half later I turned everything back on for landing and the buzzer was still going off. Once I touched down it stopped, and it hasn't happened again...

Tadpole wrote:

GumpAir wrote:Stall horn? I always wondered what that damn noise was.

Gump

I thought it was a "fun-o-meter" buzzer!

I replaced my cosmic stall horn display by a moose/caribou/sheep counter..it works awesome! (Tundra doesnt have a horn)