REFLECTOR: FOD

[Scott Derrick]

us RG folks don't have that option..  Thats why I use the speed brake.

Scott

Tom wrote:
> The first 10 hours on my fixed gear were flown without fairings (as
> per the handbook for help slowing on final). Pretty much every flight
> I would have dings on prop since homebase runway is a WWII concrete
> ramp that regurgitates lots of concrete and aggregate. After putting
> the wheelpants on, the problem virtually disappeared.
> (I had tried the taxi with the belly door down suggestion-no
> improvement--I think the mains were mostly doing it)...Tom
>
> Douglas Holub wrote:
>> / I've only got about 55 hours on my Velocity but I've had to fix dings
> />/ in the propeller 4 times already. I only land on asphalt runways.
> />/ After 500 hours my beautiful propeller will probably have 40
> filled in
> />/ dings. It's a black carbon-fiber-over-maple Prince P-Tip prop.
> />/
> />/ I wish I could use a metal prop. I've started keeping the speed brake
> />/ down when I taxi to keep stuff from the nose wheel hitting the
> propeller.
> />/
> />/ Doug Holub
> />/ Standard FG w/ electric nose lift
> /
>
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