My 9A was being landed by my uncle in the right seat for the first time last week, in somewhat gusty conditions and he was not used to the sight picture. He let it get very slow at about 3 feet altitude and it developed a high sink rate, I threw a gob of power in and pulled the nose up to arrest the fall but we still plopped down rather firmly. The Skyview showed only 1.7 G on the mains but the nose was rotating down rather rapidly and the nose gear hit hard enough to scrape the forward bottom of the fairing, and break off the aft half of the aft fairing leaving it on the runway behind us.
I pulled the cowl and did a real good inspection, no damage to anything I can find, but the nosegear leg does have witness marks on it from the Anti-Splat brace I installed during the build. I'm sure glad I bought that brace now...
Thanks Allan!
I pulled the cowl and did a real good inspection, no damage to anything I can find, but the nosegear leg does have witness marks on it from the Anti-Splat brace I installed during the build. I'm sure glad I bought that brace now...
Thanks Allan!