Thanks for all the helpful replies!
Going flying again today, hope for a better landing...:-)

Frode

I sin brennende iver bablet Roger ivei :
On Mon, 16 May 2005 11:47:25 +0200, "Frode Berg"
wrote:

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...

I'm not minimizing the consequences of a hard landing, but I think we
need to define hard landing.

And you call that a hard landing? :-))

When it jars your teeth, and/or skids sideways, or hits on the nose
gear you have a hard landing.

Cherokees (and Arrow is a Cherokee with folding feet) can take one
whale of a rough landing.

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.

It's probably just soft. You have to hit awfully hard to get to nose
gear strut to lose height... Unless the seals are worn.

All Cherokees including Arrows. Check the top surface of the wing
above the main struts. Look for deformation, or popped rivets.

Some one else gave a good list of things to check.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

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