I’m now getting ready for my airworthiness inspection and starting to go through the list of things to check. I haven’t done a thorough check on the gear for awhile, so I jacked the plane up and cycled the gear. This video shows cycling it several times, I probably cycled the gear ~15 times more using normally cycling, and ~5 manual gear drops using the hydraulic bypass valve for emergency gravity deploy. Other than a few issues with the gear fairings that I was able to fix, it works great.
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