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>  Any 320 LAME's or builders that you know might be helpful though..Cheers!
>


Hello Gerard,

We have been operating our 320 onto grass strips regularly since it's been 
flying (3 years, 960 hrs). We have a house on a grass strip in Florida that 
we fly to quite often. We just returned from Mexico where we operated off 
dirt strips, one of them fairly "unimproved". We've also operated off a 
coral strip in the Bahamas. Some of the grass runways we've been on have 
been fairly rough. We've never had any problem with the airplane from flying 
off these strips. There are no paint chips, dents, scratches, prop nicks or 
any other damage. When we flew to Mexico we did pump the nose strut up a 
little higher than usuall.

I use standard soft field techniques, ie; on takeoff, 20 degrees flaps and 
hold the nose off, level off after liftoff to gain speed and then transition 
to a normal climb. On landing, I use full flaps and make a full stall 
landing, sometimes carrying just a hint of power. These techniques take a 
bit of practice in the LNC2 but they work as well as they would in a 172.

We intend to fly our IV onto the same runways (if we ever finish building).

Bill Harrelson
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N5ZQ   320  950+ hrs
N6ZQ    IV    1%