Not quite sure why you would put the gear down when landing on water. Is there an explanation as to why?
Wouldn't this add excess drag that may cause the nose to dig in? This example shows a wheel up landing on water doesn't adversely push the nose under. Kindest Regards Grant Davies From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Mark Newton Sent: Friday, 29 August 2014 2:21 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Water Landing On Aug 29, 2014, at 12:58 PM, dennis hipperson <dennishipper...@gmail.com> wrote: Also found this: "Landing on water: Over the years, there has been an on-going debate on whether it is better to land gear up or gear down on water. Current thought from Tom Knauff is to always land gear down. I'd have expected that the current thought would be to land in accordance with the "Ditching" section in the aircraft's flight manual. - mark
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