check the brace on the nose gear down locks.. check for new cracks in the
paint.. especially around the down locks..

check the main gear attach points up in the wing/wheel wells.. rivets will
show stress as the gear leg pushed up into the wing..

I've seen on fixed gear 180s.. a pimple in the top metal of the wing where
the gear strut pushed up from inside against it and found the rivets or
bolts sheared

BT

"Frode Berg" wrote in message
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Hi!

I had a rather embarrassing hard landing yesterday in a cross wind.
Been years since that happened, most touchdowns have beed silk smooth
(sort of) lately, but yesterday, I somehow managed to flare too high,
resulting in a hard landing, as I also failed to apply corrective throttle
to arrest the inevitable sink rate....
So, the plane settled with a loud squeak on the mains, and came rather
quickly down on the nosewheel....
A slight bounce also occured....not a pretty landing obviously...

Anyway, I am writing this to ask if theres anything in particular that I
should look for as warnings that something might have been damaged with
the landing gear.
The plan is a '68 Arrow, and as far as I could see it looked fine parked.
I notice the nosewheel strut was a bit lower than normal (probably from
the abrupt lowering on touchdown) but I lifted it up manually, and it
stayed the way it normally is.

So, what should I check for in the main and nose landing gear after a non
greaser like this?

Thanks, and pleas no "you should have done this or that" as I already know
most of what I did wrong...:-)

Blushing regards,

Frode