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Old 7th Sep 2012, 20:32
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Don't worry about that nosewheel issue too much. It only manifests itself, like I said, with aft CofG landings which are very smoothly on the mainwheels and put no weight on the nosewheel whatsoever. If you then keep the stick pulled it may bite you. But as soon as you put weight on the nosewheel, either by putting the stick forward or by braking, it's over.

It's only when you don't know about this that it may bite. Like it did to the pilot of our -160 a few weeks ago. He landed, lost directional control, rolled off the runway and hit the PAPI with the wing. Both the PAPI and the aircraft U/S. The PAPI was repaired in a matter of days, the aircraft will take a little longer.
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