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It doesn't seem safe to me to hope that weight on
the mains will keep them from retracting during nose gear retract/extend checks. I tie the tail down to a tiedown spot so the nose gear is off the ground, cap off the hydraulic lines to the mains in the wheel wells and cycle the nose gear normally. The tail tiedown is not at the tiedown fitting built in, but rather with a rope across the fuselage just forward of the horizontal stab. I have a piece of carpet over the fuselage so the ropes do not mar the painted surface. As shown in the attached photos, I check each main
separately by capping off the other main in the wheel well and the hyd. line to the nose gear under the seats, then cycle the jacked up main as necessary. Some will question the auto jack I use, (looks shaky) but with the airplane securely chocked, in the hangar, it does the job. George Shattuck
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