Terry wrote:

Hi Brian

Just thought I'd pass this along. You probably know all this
anyway but.....
I've never had a problem with the flaps on my Cessna 150F but I use
the
standard 10 downwind, 20 on base and keep it on 20 on final until I'm
close
enough to the numbers to check for deer, runway is clear etc before I
use the
30 flap setting and only if I need 30 which is rare. I know my C150
will fly with
20 degrees of flap. With 20 I can arrest the descent and climb out.
When doing T & G's always put your two eyes on the flaps to verify
they have gone back up before
lifting off the ground. May not seem like it but you have plenty of
time while accelerating. Just a quick glane out both sides. If one
doesn't look right
stay on the ground and shut it down. You don't want one flap handing
down on
climb out. Winter can cause unusal problems such as a piece of ice
getting
someplace it doesn't belong.

Just a few thoughts to pass along to all that read this newsgroup...

Terry N6401F


Sounds good to me. I want to set about 15 deg flaps for landing,
having seen what 40 years of landings do to a tail tie down eye bolt -
its lower surface is about 40% its original thickness....
About deer: I hear some unicom chatter from a field 30 miles down the road:
* take care for the deer inside the fence line
* Those aren't deer they're hogs.
* There are deer AND hogs.

Which reminded me of the intelligence from the homeowner where I keep a
horse:
"deer are becoming a nuisance so the does are open every hunting dasy.
And I know a man at Dallas who will purchase live wild hogs - he fattens
them for the top drawer restaurant market as wild boar: which they are,
essentially...."

Brian W