It looks like your hydraulic pressure was 1,500, which is a lot. Mine stays around 1,200. When my gear wouldn't retract reliably I upgraded some of my hydraulic system components, but I doubt there were ever any hydraulic bugs. Finally my mechanics tightened some loose parts in the left gear latch, and voila! On rare occasions the 3 greens still fail to come on -- When that happens I turn my hydraulic pump off and on, and then try again to retract. So far that's worked every time, though I'm not sure why. Maybe I'll start routinely turning the hydraulic pump off and on as part of my runup checklist.
A Navion guru stated the airplane should be at a complete stop prior to raising the flaps, as he'd repaired a Navion which had gear collapse when the hydraulic pressure dropped as the flaps we coming up. Sounds plausible to me. This was a good video, I forgot how much lateral motion the mains have when touching down.
Does this plane fly like a 172 or upper 180 ? Basically I’m asking I would like to learn to fly and I would rather learn in a plane I actually would want to fly not just learn in.
It looks like your hydraulic pressure was 1,500, which is a lot. Mine stays around 1,200. When my gear wouldn't retract reliably I upgraded some of my hydraulic system components, but I doubt there were ever any hydraulic bugs. Finally my mechanics tightened some loose parts in the left gear latch, and voila! On rare occasions the 3 greens still fail to come on -- When that happens I turn my hydraulic pump off and on, and then try again to retract. So far that's worked every time, though I'm not sure why. Maybe I'll start routinely turning the hydraulic pump off and on as part of my runup checklist.
A Navion guru stated the airplane should be at a complete stop prior to raising the flaps, as he'd repaired a Navion which had gear collapse when the hydraulic pressure dropped as the flaps we coming up.
Sounds plausible to me.
This was a good video, I forgot how much lateral motion the mains have when touching down.
Does this plane fly like a 172 or upper 180 ? Basically I’m asking I would like to learn to fly and I would rather learn in a plane I actually would want to fly not just learn in.
Hydraulic pressure 1125. Minus 25 plus 0 and thats a hard limit due to cracking the top of the gear.