Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:06:42 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.46] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.1) with ESMTP id 1886474 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:14:20 -0500 Received: from user-33qtsdb.dialup.mindspring.com ([199.174.241.171] helo=earthlink.net) by grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18GK0A-0005fI-00 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 06:14:18 -0800 X-Original-Message-ID: <3DE2314D.9050509@earthlink.net> X-Original-Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:18:53 -0500 From: Capt D User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (nscd1) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net Subject: lml RE: Ditching Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For a water landing in a retract, you definitely want the gear UP. Generally, for emergency landings, the gear will go DOWN. This is also true over rough terrain, including trees, gear down. That helps to absorb impact if nothing else. Land at minimum speed, full flaps. Do not stall and impact vertically. D. Story, CFII, MEI