I own a Grumman Tiger and let me say the nose wheel is only the weak link if the torque tube is delaminating !!! There is nothing wrong with the design, and the aircraft should be treated the same as any other tri undercart aircraft. Most of the prop strikes are when the glue holding the torque tube together fails and the whole assembly fails.
Gav Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin & Bev Rainey" <crain...@cfl.rr.com> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:11 PM Subject: KR> Trigear > I have to agree with Larry and say that any trigear setup can be collapsed. One must remember to protect the nose gear by continuing the back pressure increase throughout the flare until the nose settles on its own, or damage can occur. The Grumman Tiger, Cheetah, Traveler, and Lynx all have the same type nose wheel, and it fairs them well, but is the weak link. This is where I have preached that one NEEDS to learn how to fly into ground effect first, and then establish a landing attitude followed by a gradual flare as the airspeed bleeds off. All too often pilots get in a hurry to get into the flare attitude on the descent, and they are very near the stall when they enter ground effect. They try to continue flaring only to find too little airspeed, and too little elevator left to flare, so the nose drops as they drop crashing to the runway, smashing into a 3 point which overloads the nose gear. Descend down final, round out into ground effect and pause as you fly in ground effe > > Colin & Bev Rainey > KR2(td) N96TA > Sanford, FL > crain...@cfl.rr.com > or crbrn9...@hotmail.com > http://kr-builder.org/Colin/index.html > _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.639 / Virus Database: 408 - Release Date: 22/03/2004
