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Aviators,
My wife and I flew to Williamsburg (JGG) in our 177RG on Sat. and stayed until Sunday. On base at Williamsburg I noticed that the airspeed was really high. I raised the nose and pulled some power. I had 20 degrees of flaps in and that is what I usually land with. On final the airspeed was just coming out of the green and touching the white arc with only 15 inches manifold pressure. On short final I dropped the last 10 degrees, but despite that, man I came across the threshold like a bat-out-of-hell. The runway was only 3000 feet, but somehow I got it down and stopped after heavy brake burning. I just figured I used some really bad technique or picked up a tailwind. I looked at the wind sock and it was stone dead and limp. On my pre-flight for the trip home I found out why all this happened. Sometime after lift-off to JGG the flaps went TU. I had no flaps on landing and I never noticed!! I can hardly believe I don't consciencely or unconsciencely look to see if the flaps are deploying. Why didn't I notice that the flap indicator didn't move or that the plane didn't change pitch or that it didn't push me against the shoulder harness as usual. I just didn't catch the fact that no flaps came out. Now I had to get home. I called my mechanic and he said it could be many things (it wasn't the breaker). He also said I was a complete wimp (he used a different word that began with a p) if I couldn't land that plane without the flaps on our 3,500 feet of runway. I took off and started to ponder the situation: No flaps No daylight with 3 miles vis. in haze and mist (ASOS said 10 miles but no way could you see more than 3 miles) No landing light (it burned out two weeks ago) No wind (so no headwind to help slow the airplane's ground speed on landing) and I've done a grand total of two no-flap landings in my life. One with my primary CFI and one during my check out when I bought the plane. Both during the day with a headwind. Well, obviously everything went fine and I exited on the second taxiway off 19 at N14, my homebase. I landed as slow as I could, but the nose was so high that seeing ahead of the airplane was almost impossible. I used runway 19 because runway 1 has trees on the approach and I wanted to come in as flat as possible. Anyway...how many different things can cause this? Where should I start looking? I also recommend that everyone do some no flap landings each year. Kobra |
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