Graeme, If the prop is going round you will break it and
very possibly damage the engine, so if it ever does happen
for real deliberately stop the engine on final approach to
protect the engine, and you just might be lucky and get it
to stop in the one blade up & two down position where you
can hope to avoid breaking the prop too. I once flew
through some rotor in the Welsh mountains and found that
the severe turbulence moved the joint in the gear lever so
that when I came to put the gear down the lever was about
1/4" from the detent. I flew away from the circuit to
consider my options, but found it actually yielded to
main force (pulling hard with my right hand whilst
thumping that hand with my left fist), but two points
worth mentioning:
1) If the plane is still flying properly go away somewhere
and at a safe height do your fiddling. You do not need
serious distractions at circuit height.
2) With time to reflect on it, I realise that it would
have been OK to land with it as far down as it was, as the
gear had reached its stop and the mechanism would have
been over centre, and with a hand on the knob to stop any
impact rattling it out of that position landing would have
been no problem
Regards, David Joyce, G-XSDJ
"graeme bird" <graeme@gdbmk.co.uk> wrote:
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>For a very brief moment last night I thought my wheel was
>stuck up. I'll chock it up and check it all out but I
>have wondered what the best technique would have been. I
>doubt the prop would clear. I guess short grass and as
>slow on contact and as much on the tail as possible.
>Would the prop just smash up or would it take the engine
>off?
>
> I guess that a sharpish pitch up would also encourage it
>down.
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