"brian whatcott" wrote in message
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I am still familiarizing with a newly acquired 150.
The other day I flew on a chilly evening just above freezing.
I applied flaps in the pattern, and when I landed, the flaps didn't
want to retract
I had earlier exercised the flaps on preflight without problem
and before the plane was put away, the flaps went up OK.

I guessed that the actuator froze up, so it probably needs lube to
keep the water away.... The flap motor fuse checked OK of course...

Any thoughts?

Brian W


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