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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
5zq@cox.net
N5ZQ 320 950+ hrs
N6ZQ IV 1%
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