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From:  n295 v v In my LIV the pitch movenment in the flap extension is fairly smooth, and gives no surprises.

However,  if I am at low speed and need to abort the landing, retraction of the flaps gives such an excursion of pitch that i have only done it once---it was the scariest experience i have had in my plane. If I abort a landing, I  dont touch the flap control.  I put the plane into full power, push the rudder to the floor, and climb verrrrry slowly to recover altitude.

Slowing down the flap retraction speed would help, but I cannot do this manually and control the climb out at the same time--the inputs are above my physical skill level.

I really think that if i retracted the flaps at 100 kts the pitch excursion might stall the airplane, it is that violent, particularly at full power as an aborted landing dictates.

I would be interested in learning if other IV pilots have solved this problem, or if they have it.

David Jones

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