Originally Posted by
megan
If it's still flying OK it's still a reasonable thing to do, fit new skids. Landing sans skids how might that turn out, besides incurring additional damage to the belly, what if it rolls on its side. One of our Hueys in Vietnam had a hover skid change, someone in a thread here had pics of a 212, I think in Alaska, doing the same. Once did the same as crab mentions, 76 nose gear wouldn't extend, landed with the nose on a pile of sand bags. Problem was the oleo did not extend on take off and the scissor link jammed up against, and bent, the hydraulic jack.
But it had already landed - heavily. Shut down and asses, not fly and change the skids.