Return-Path: Received: from pop3.olsusa.com ([63.150.212.2] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.2) with ESMTP id 1032000 for rob@logan.com; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:24:50 -0500 Received: from www.dynacomm.ws ([198.22.63.66]) by pop3.olsusa.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-71866U8000L800S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:04:51 -0500 Received: from [207.74.178.7] (lorn.mich.com [207.74.178.7]) by www.dynacomm.ws (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g0SH6ei13472; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:06:40 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:06:41 -0500 To: From: "Lorn H. Olsen" Subject: The First Bounce Cc: lorn@dynacomm.ws, "John Stchur" , "JoAnn L. Olsen" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Mailing-List: lancair.list@olsusa.com Reply-To: lancair.list@olsusa.com <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> << Lancair Builders' Mail List >> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >> My landings have been so perfect lately that I thought that I needed to try something different. I have been using 35 degrees of flaps for the last year. I was going to try 45 degrees. I approached 4,000 ft runway 31 at Livingston County, Mi., with the wind out of 210 at 12. It was turbulent. I was descending at about 2,000 ft/min. At about 100 ft I started to arrest my sink rate. Whoops... that was not high enough. By 25 ft, I was at full throttle and still descending. The plane "landed" on all 3 wheels, pretty hard but not hard enough to break it, and bounced back in the air about 10 ft. I milked some flaps off, got a positive rate of climb, raised the gear and continued around the pattern for a fair landing with 35 degrees of flaps and not such a high rate of descend. This brings us to the point of this letter. The time to go around is after the first bounce. I belive that, had I gone around on the first bounce, the time that I bent my nose gear fork, rather that the 5th bounce, I may not have bent the fork at all. Happy Landings, -- Lorn H. 'Feathers' Olsen, DynaComm, Corp. 248-478-4301, mailto:lorn@dynacomm.ws LNC2, O-320, N31161, Y47, SE Michigan >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LML website: http://members.olsusa.com/mkaye/maillist.html LML Builders' Bookstore: http://www.buildersbooks.com/lancair Please remember that purchases from the Builders' Bookstore assist with the management of the LML. Please send your photos and drawings to marvkaye@olsusa.com. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>