Originally Posted by tucson

Hi Marty,
I might as well chime in here .
I have 15 flights on my hawk. In the air it is a pleasure to fly.
Landings can be something else.
It appears the landing envelope on mine is quite small.
I have made some greasers with mine but if you are not on the numbers it will bite you big time.
My last flight tore the nose gear, nose gear frame, right wing landing gear, the bottom skin behind the wing gear as the air cylinder being under the skin has no place to go so it takes the bottom wing skin with it.

My CG was 190-195, it weighed approx 28 lbs with the hopper tank full.

Thankfully my repair looks about normal. I have set the CG to 200 but have not flown it yet.

I also had one of the best turbine pilots Dan Avila in our area fly it and he had a problem with the landing also. His comment to me was fly's great in the air but the landing envelope on mine was very small.

I have a feeling that there are people out there for whatever reason will not comment on their landing problems.

In conclusion I am sure there are good flying CA hawks out there, but I believe based on my experience everything has to be right on or you can have landing problems.

I have lots of flights on my Flash with no landing problems what so ever.

Curious if anyone else has experienced the same landing problems as me.

Stan