2005 Maintenance and Annual Condition Inspection

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Gear retraction test. Plane is up on jacks and gear cycled up. Notice the slight cant of the main gear doors such that the forward edge is just inside of lip of gear well. In early flights, we found that there was a slight buffet when in tight turns (pulling G's). It seemed that the gear sagged slightly into the airstream and the turbulence was felt as a buffet. Canting the door like this seems to have taken care of this problem as the airstream tends to force the door and gear back into the well.