NYTOM
Well Known Member
Only have a few dozen landings on my 6-A and still mastering the technique.
Today while landing at a neighboring hard surface airport and with a touch down at about 65 mph I encountered a quick and short tremendous noise I can’t even describe when I let the nose wheel down. Felt like the tire was missing. Tried to keep the nose off and it did it again. I was committed to land and and on the third nose wheel touch down everything was fine.
Fully expected to find a damaged nose gear when I shut down. No visible damage. Everything looked fine. It’s a Grove wheel and had the bearings and balance job done by Antisplat. Pressure was at 50 psi. and the breakout was recently checked at 22lbs. I’m thinking it was short bursts of imbalance when the tire touched and came up to speed. Take off was normal but I was really puckered up landing at my home field on my return. Everything fine again.
I’m going to pull everything apart and check anyway but does anyone have any thoughts of what may have happened? It really got my attention when it happened.
Today while landing at a neighboring hard surface airport and with a touch down at about 65 mph I encountered a quick and short tremendous noise I can’t even describe when I let the nose wheel down. Felt like the tire was missing. Tried to keep the nose off and it did it again. I was committed to land and and on the third nose wheel touch down everything was fine.
Fully expected to find a damaged nose gear when I shut down. No visible damage. Everything looked fine. It’s a Grove wheel and had the bearings and balance job done by Antisplat. Pressure was at 50 psi. and the breakout was recently checked at 22lbs. I’m thinking it was short bursts of imbalance when the tire touched and came up to speed. Take off was normal but I was really puckered up landing at my home field on my return. Everything fine again.
I’m going to pull everything apart and check anyway but does anyone have any thoughts of what may have happened? It really got my attention when it happened.