"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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houstondan wrote:
reading stuff like yours is why i do the net groups. thanks for posting
that. would there have been any sense to "bumping" it on the runway??
planning not to put all the weight on it and just kinda bumping it then
pulling up to do another circuit with whatever new info you just
gained??


And what would that tell you. Frankly, unless there's something
dangerous
(like something in the way on the runway), it's probably safer to continue
the landing and take the possible collapse. A gingerly executed landing
is going to be better than bumping things and taking off... I've seen
a plane land without the nosegear and I've seen one land without one of
the
mains. While the first yielded a bunch of sparks and the second caused
the
plane to go off into the dirt, both pilots walked away uninjured and
without
too much damange to the plane either.

Half-way through the post, I thought Len was involved in this (with video):

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/u...?storyid=32215

from a day or so ago. Pretty standard 1-main-up landing.