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Old 03-13-2007 | 01:52 PM
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From: Bug Smasher Captain, CFI
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Originally Posted by ToiletDuck
I've struck a C-172 and M20 Mooney. give it a little gas while rolling down the runway and rotate. You can make the 172 rub everytime. Doesn't hurt anything as you can barely feel it. But I've had a few students do it. As for the Mooney. You can strike those on no flap landings easily. On my CFI checkride at the FSDO he gave me a point on the runway to poweroff 180 to. The reported winds was broken so I was eyeballing it and they ended up being about 12kts. So i never used flaps and floated forever trying to make it to the point. Literally I landed on the exact inch and drug the tail doing it. Neither were anything to worry about.
Does that do any other strutural damage to the plane? Nearly all of the 172's and 152's that I have flown in have a flat spot on the tail tiedown ring. Just wondering....
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