Amateur/Home Built/Experimental
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 25; Flight Crew Total 20950; Flight Crew Type 10
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft
Upon a smooth touchdown/landing; the nose wheel 'broke off' at a weak point that AutoGyro has designed into the Gyroplane.  It appears; not for sure; that the nose wheel shaft (the weak point) had been cracked and finally gave way while I was landing.  No damage; no injuries.  The weak point fork was replaced.
AutoGyro Cavalon pilot reported the nose gear broke off during a smooth landing roll.