X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com X-SpamCatcher-Score: 30 [X] Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:05:10 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [64.97.144.82] (HELO n016.sc0.he.tucows.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.7) with ESMTP id 1915811 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:45:54 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.97.144.82; envelope-from=billhogarty@hughes.net Received: from [192.168.1.101] (69.19.84.131) by n016.sc0.he.tucows.com (7.2.078) (authenticated as billhogarty@hughes.net) id 45F167CA0005D348 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:45:03 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: <45F4BEA0.7000803@hughes.net> X-Original-Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:44:48 -0800 From: billhogarty User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] Re: "enough" runway References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As one who has survived a L-IVP gear retraction during take-off, I have to say that you guys are beginning to scare me with your talk of over-riding the squat switch and retracting the gear during a bad takeoff as a means of slowing down.??? Since one gear always breaks free first, what would prevent the plane from cartwheeling and would it be possible to survive??? I really doubt it.....so I hope that this discussion is all tongue-in-cheek. Maybe a drag chute would be preferable....It might fit inside the new "strake" mod??? Any other options???? Regards, Bill Hogarty