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Slow Landing Flaps Deployment

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 6:59 pm
by dwurfel
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

Re: Slow Landing Flaps Deployment

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 10:54 pm
by Kyle
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.

Re: Slow Landing Flaps Deployment

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 5:18 pm
by Barry
I agree with Kyle. I've had this happen a couple of times and had to replace the microswitches. Its a relatively simple repair.

Barry Starkman
Commercial Instrument
N984ES DA40 40.827
KEIK

Re: Slow Landing Flaps Deployment

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 3:40 am
by Don
Also, these are exact symptoms before I had a micro-switch fully fail. I have had to replace two of them at different times.