REFLECTOR: Ouch!

[Christopher Martin]

Happens all the time. Mine touches on the inside of the nose compartment hatch and all that air is still blowing in through the open nose gear doors. If you don't want the stink just wait for the wheel to spin down. I don't wait and I get the smell every time. Let's me know the nose wheel is up and on the stops. 650 hours and over 1000 take-offs and landings, (an equal number of take-offs and landings, I might add), and everything is fine. Not even any deterioration of  the fiber glass on the inside of the hatch cover. Just a little black rubber.

Christopher Martin
christophercmartin at earthlink.net



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Laurence Coen 
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Sent: 7/12/2006 3:35:08 PM 
Subject: REFLECTOR: Ouch!


I scared the "pee-wiz" out of myself today.  Nice day, all systems green, good take-off, great climb, gear up and then the smell of burning rubber.  Oh m'Gawd, I'm on fire.  Not so.  What was different about this take-off  was that I raised the gear sooner than I had before.  The nose wheel was still spun up when the doors closed and rubbed on the wheel.  Instant stink.  Outside of taking a couple of years off my life, no harm was done.

When I tested the system on the ground, there is lots of clearance between the nose wheel and the doors but this is after the mains are up and the system is fully pressurized.  It seems that the nose wheel contacts the doors while the mains are coming up.  Has this happened to anyone else, or am I that special?

Larry Coen
N136LC SE/RG Franklin
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