REFLECTOR:Gear Up

[Fred Marconi]

  Scott:  Insurances for Velocity are provided at with a 10% deductible.  At
that I felt that it was not wise to take hull coverage.

  Velocity has a bad record, and I have to say that this is in part the
factory's fault.  The initial fork that was used for the front wheel was a
bad desigh.  It took many accidents before they decided to change.
Insurances did not forget this.  The landing gear system can be better
designed, the factory is slow to change, we pay the insurance price.

  I was one of the lucky ones, I cought the crack on the old fork before a
mishap, I do have to thank the company for offering me a replacement for the
new desigh at no charge.  The mains, well they got stuck on me and
fortunatelly I had someone in the plane and we knocked them loose.  The
wheel got cought on the inbord lip of the strake.  The camber had changed 2
degrees, enough to cause a problem.  I removed the lip and will add the
material to the skirt.  This skirts need to be redisigned, they would not
hear of this.

  Fred

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Scott Derrick" <scott@tnstaafl.net>
  To: <reflector@tvbf.org>
  Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:01 PM
  Subject: Re: REFLECTOR:Gear Up


  > 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
  >
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