Dear all,
I am slowly gaining experience with my monowheel, but today I did a few
patterns on a concrete runway (before I mainly used grass strips as a
beginning) and experienced hefty "bouncings" on landing, causing me to
go around twice-although touchdown was quite smooth it threw me back up
in the air like a rubber ball (I tried touchdown speeds between 45 and
60 kts with steep and shallow approaches, with and without flaring). The
mono is one of the first from 1996-1998 with the red rubberblock as a
shock absorber- since the a/c has now around 600 hrs/700 landings, could
it be the case that it needs to be replaced? Or could it be something
else? I know that the mono tends to bounce if not landed "on the point",
but I never experienced it in my past 25 landings so badly. Did anyone
have a similar experience? I use the large 8.00 tire on it.
Thank you for your help
Frank Kusserow
Germany
D-EJWD/ Europa Mono Classic/912UL/Warp Drive
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