[Orv Neisingh]

Many have noticed that the Talon landing gear is weaker than the 162F landing gear and spreads outward with time and non-perfect set downs. It is common to see folks use ratchet straps to pull the rear gear legs toward each other to load the helicopter on a trailer. When you see some Talons their tail boom sits lower to the ground than the 162Fs due to the rear gear spread. One of my students had a simple solution to the gear spread. He used a bar of 1/4" steel rod welded to end plates and then the end plate was bolted onto a connector that wrapped around the read landing gear leg just below the step. I have also seen similar fixes using cable and turnbuckles.

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