Originally Posted by
Seabreeze
Put the nosewheel on the ground first? WTF?
Only if you want to hop down the runway like a kangaroo.!
SB
I think he was employing a narrative device known as "Sarcasm" :P
But from it seems here this technique is to cover a deficiency in design where they'd rather add in a couple of extra lines to a POH than go back to the drawing board and fix it up properly? At first look without any real reference the first things that come to mind is that the wheel does look awful tiny and would suffer from a lot of shimmy but I can't quite put my finger on why exactly.