Dan Heath wrote: > On approach to landing, be sure that your mixture control is on its > optimum rich setting.
Glad you didn't do any serious damage. After watching that spar breaking test at the Gathering a few years ago, I doubt you hurt the spar at all. I learned some similar wisdom on my first flight in N56ML. I was about to "drop it in" from about 6 feet up, and stuffed the throttle from idle to wide open in about a nanosecond. The prop quit instantly, and I dropped it in anyway, putting 5.5 g's on the g-meter! See the bottom photo at http://www.n56ml.com/flights/second/ for the actual drop-in. Needless to say, I learned from that to be a lot more gentle when opening the throttle. There are several other lessons learned detailed on that page too. On another incident, I managed to tear a wheel pant off landing short at M38, which also ripped the gear leg fairing at the wing. No spar problem there either. Hopefully your bump is only a chunk of foam or something... Mark Langford ML at N56ML.com website at http://www.N56ML.com --------------------------------------------------------
