<HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff" STYLE="font:10pt verdana; border:none;background-color:#ffffff; "><DIV>Dan </DIV> <DIV>Take them off and try it.</DIV> <DIV>Jim Ivey</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt Arial; COLOR: black"><B>From:</B> Dan Curtis</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, May 18, 2003 11:50 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:</B> NSRCA Discussion</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> Wheel pants</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1126" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><FONT size=2>Hey Guys,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>My latest plane has fixed gear and pants. If memory serves this is the first plane that I have ever owned that had wheel pants. The pants are very light and along with this is the fact they are relatively flimsey. They are anchored on the gear leg and have minimal movement (there is a bit) up and down. However, they can be moved side to side pretty easily by grabbing the front and moving them. My plane on the first flights has shown some rather strange yaw tendencies. Sometimes it seems like it needs some pretty hefty right rudder trim and other times during the same flight it will seem that left trim is called for. Could this yaw problem be related to the pants movement? Hope I made that close to understandable.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Dan</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>