Mike,

On the air valves I'm using a short threaded rod with a clevis at each end. The tiny hole in the plunger end is orientated vertically so that the clevis is free to rotate horizontally in order to not induce any side load. Also as I mentioned before make sure your ATV is set so that the plunger stops before hitting the mechanical stop.

I had a Jomar electronic sequencer that I was planning on using. So I set up separate servos useing the supplied air valves. After hooking everything up I discovered that when the gear is down and I turned on the radio, the servos would jump to the up position then back to the down position. So I nixed the sequencer.

My solution was to mix an aux. channel (for doors) to the gear channel, then use the servo slow feature of my 9303 to sequence them. Now with gears down and doors open when I hit the up switch the gear servo moves at normal speed to retract the gear. The door servo slowly moves to the close position allowing the gear to be tucked away before the doors close. When I select the gear down position the door servo moves at normal speed to immediately open the doors and the gear servo slowly moves to the down position. Works great.

I have a gyro on the nose wheel. My Gripen, which is probably a worse case, was really bad for ground handling until I added a gyro plus a few other tweeks. Because of its narrow gear I figured I just start out with a gyro on the F-16.

Joe

Joe