It doesn't....
the only situation where the G force gear would be a advantage over even rigid gear, is a stop and drop landing. And you can only stop and drop land a G force gear gyro from a relatively low altitude.
If there is room to approach and flare for a normal landing in a emergency situation, the type of landing gear should make no difference.
If there isn't room to approach and flare normally ( Say your over a wooded area and the only clearing within your glide path is too small to safely land normally in ) you could flare high and drop into the " hole " vertically. Over a certain height even G force gear will buckle and fail.
A good pilot makes sure he or she is always has something land-able under them and within their glide path. And with practice, you would be surprised at how small of a area you can safely land a conventional gear gyro into.
Ron,
I am going to respectfully disagree with you too. I have no intention of getting into an argument with you and anyone who knows either of us knows you prefer Dominators and I prefer Butterfly Gyros and we are both free to prefer anything we like. However when you make a statement like ;
"the only situation where the G force gear would be a advantage over even rigid gear, is a stop and drop landing. And you can only stop and drop land a G force gear gyro from a relatively low altitude.
If there is room to approach and flare for a normal landing in a emergency situation, the type of landing gear should make no difference. "
I simply want to state an oposing and different opinion, so that others reading this post can have both sides of the arguement. I constantly hear statements from Pilots who already know how to fly, that "if you land the Gyro right, there is no need for the G-Force Landing Gear and that it is simply an unnecessary gimick that has no real value". I don't believe this statement is totally accurate. While people have been landing Gyros for decades without a force absorbing landing gear system, and "if it is
done right", you really don't need anything fancy (is a mostly accurate statement), the value of having G-Force landing Gear comes into play most when everything
"doesn't go right". (kind of like the subject currently being discussed about the level of safelty in a crash between these two designs. If a pilot flares too high, whether because of low skill level, or a gust of wind hit him, or he just has a bad day) and he baloons up and then drops it back down (again I know this is not the right way to handle that situation, but we are talking about when things don't go the way they should have), the G-Force landing gear can make this situation a "Non-Event". Where otherwise it could result in a bent frame or axle, or in severe cases, a tip over with lots of machine damage and occasionally even pilot damage. I think that qualifies as a pretty major advantage and a large safety factor.
As for your contention that the G-Force Landing Gear can not do a stop and drop landing from very high, that is simply not accurate. Larry has repeatedly demonstrated this maneuver from over 30 feet high, with no damage to the machine at all. Try that in any other Gyro or fixed wing plane and you will be looking at a very badly damaged (if not totalled) machine. In his landing video he also shows an engine out landing from hundreds of feet high on a very steep glide path with about 17 mph forward speed. He calls this his helicopter style approach and he doesn't even flare at the end and it sets down as light as a feather. If you ever have to put the machine down in a small area (for what ever the reason, engine out or otherwise) I believe this is a huge advantage.
People are generally into what ever they decide to be into, and tyrpically try to justify why they are not into things they aren't into. I understand why a Gyro owner who doesn't have the advantages of G-Force Landing Gear would tend to minimize the importance or value of having it, because they don't have it and few people are anxious to admit that "what they have" isn't the best choice available. But the truth is the G-Force Landing Gear has several advantages over a conventional system and it adds capabilities and a huge safety factor, if things don't go the way they should have.
When Larry first came out with his G-Force system, people looked at it and said things like, "well he may be able to do those spectacular landings but it is eventaully going to damage his landing gear and cause him problems". But that has not turned out to be the case. The Butterfly G-Force Landing Gear has been proven over years to be capable and built to handle forces that would criple other Gyros. Being able to land softly (like you are landing on a Giant Marshmellow), sure sounds like a huge safety advantage to me. (both to the machine and "especially" to the Pilot)
Remember, we are not talking about whether a skilled pilot should be able to land a Gyro softly and correctly every time. We are talking about if things go wrong and what should have happened, doesn't happen. In that emergency situation, is there an extra level of safety to protect the machine and pilot? or do they just crash land and see how things come out? I think that added level of safety is worth having, and needs to be recognized for what it is.
Here is a link to the video showing what the G-Force landing Gear can do.
http://youtu.be/ajM3yOojPbg