Slow Landing Flaps Deployment

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dwurfel
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Slow Landing Flaps Deployment

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Not sure anyone has experienced this, but seems when I put first flaps in on landing the movement is immediate. When I put the second landing flaps in the flap movement is not immediate but lags the command by about 5 seconds. Not sure why I noticed this lately and not sure if it is any different from past experience. You experience and comments are welcomed. :bow
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Re: Slow Landing Flaps Deployment

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I would suspect that one of the flap limit switches may be sticking or starting to fail. I had some limit switch failures a while back that prevented the flaps from moving. Before they completely failed, I experienced delays prior to flap movement similar to what you described, although the length of the delay was not consistent.
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Re: Slow Landing Flaps Deployment

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I agree with Kyle. I've had this happen a couple of times and had to replace the microswitches. Its a relatively simple repair.

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Re: Slow Landing Flaps Deployment

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Also, these are exact symptoms before I had a micro-switch fully fail. I have had to replace two of them at different times.
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