REFLECTOR:Gear Up

[Scott Derrick]

Don,

What a drag!!! IN more ways than one!!  Sorry for the bad joke,

Having just been through a nose up landing because of a stuck up nose gear
I feel some of your pain.  THough I didn't trash a prop, I'm still
reshaping the nose, rebuilding the nose gear doors, and completely
replacing the nose gear assembly so I have the latest and greatest
equipment.

I don;t have in-flight insurance so I'm doig htis out of pocket.  Not to
bad really, but a trashed MT would have been pricey!

Hope you figure out why it didn't lock.  What year was your kit?

Scott

> I had the main gear on my 173RGE collapse on landing this afternoon. At
> first glance the damage doesn't seem to be too bad. A ground up belly and
> a trashed MT prop.
>
> It is really too soon to do much speculation as to the cause until I have
> had a chance to examine it more carefully. However, at  this point it
> looks as though the overcenter linkage may simply not have latched
> properly. I can't really say whether I had two greens on the gear lights
> or not, but I am sure that I didn't have a red light.
>
> I will report back if and when I have more definite information as to what
> happened.
>
> Donald Royer
> djroyer@earthlink.net