Missed Approaches with a Johnson Bar

[captainglen]

I am not IFR but find flap retraction much more critical than gear retraction depending on the type of flap retract lever you have. In my C model it is a knob and sometiles they do not retract as slow as I would like. I try to handle the knob lightly to feather them up but quite often they come up faster than I like. Some later modeld have a little lever and although I have never used one of these it seems like it should be easier.

[Bob_Belville]

I am not IFR but find flap retraction much more critical than gear retraction depending on the type of flap retract lever you have. In my C model it is a knob and sometiles they do not retract as slow as I would like. I try to handle the knob lightly to feather them up but quite often they come up faster than I like. Some later modeld have a little lever and although I have never used one of these it seems like it should be easier.

Glen, our hydraulic flaps are really not designed (very well) to partially retract. I suppose you are not concerned with take off when you're dumping 15 deg and not much happens to pitch. When you are in short final landing configuration with 33 deg flaps you also have pitch trim near full nose up. Dumping flaps requires pushing the yoke firmly forward until you can reset the pitch wheel but very doable. Be sure to have enough speed before dumping flaps. No need to be a a big hurry, your C will climb pretty well with full flaps when you go full power. But finally, there is an adjustment to the bleed valve that your A&P can adjust to slow the flap retract speed.