One of the impacts was over 4 G's and I will check the gear and
engine mount out completely before I go again
Joe Horton, Coopersburg, PA.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Joe and other KR pilots, I'll add one more thought to my post from this morning. Most people I hear talk about bouncing a landing consider it to be a result of too much speed. I contend that a bounce on landing is a result of vertical decent rate and not directly related to speed. 99.99 percent of your landings will result in a touchdown somewhere above full stall speed and yet won't necessarily result in a bounce. I have landed on grass strips where I've flared and let it settle on at least 10 mph above stall with no bounce. Excess speed will aggravate the bounce because the wing is still capable of supporting the weight of the aircraft and any spring-back in the gear can all go to accelerating the plane in a vertical direction and have you flying again. If the wing is stalled when you bounce, the gear has much more weight to accelerate and will not be able to give it as much distance vertically. What you're trying to accomplish on landing is to check your vertical decent rate to near zero (flare) just inches above the runway at whatever speed you are above stall. Touchdown right at stall with a near zero decent rate would be a "greaser" landing but don't count on that happening very often. Try making every landing at the slowest possible airspeed but remember, the critical component is the vertical decent rate a touchdown. Get a friend with a hand-held radio to set near the runway and call out your height above the runway on landings until you get a picture in you mind what it should look like. I'd bet that after a few landings you'll be planting it on with little if any bounce. My worst landings are those days when I flare too high and then try to hold it off. It makes for a bad landing every time. Remember, you're learning to fly a new and very different airplane and you don't have an instructor setting next to you to give you pointers or bail you out. Happy landings............ Larry Flesner
