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At the end of an always enjoyable flight last Saturday
in 233L, I experienced an unexpected and highly stressful event. As I
entered the pattern at my home airport (PSX), began to set up for my approach,
selected the landing gear down position, to my amazement nothing happened.
I checked circuit breakers and re-selected gear down. Again, nothing
happened. After collecting my thoughts, mostly about the destruction of a
beautiful aircraft during a gear up landing, I began the emergency
procedure. Immediately upon opening the dump valve, the hydraulic pump
came on. I closed the dump valve and soon had three green lights.
The rest of the approach and landing was routine.
My question to the group is.............does this
suggest a problem with a pressure sensor and are there any other possible
explanations for what happened? My landing gear circuit was
upgraded during construction and includes: Bosch relays, full bridge
wave, circuit breaker in the signal power to the main power relay. The
aircraft has 40+ hours since new with absolutely flawless performance until
now.
Rocket Man-LNC2/233L
Robert
Robert W.
Johs
Dow
Chemical Co.
Seadrift LHC-2
ISB Leader/ODMS
Coordinator
361/553-3508, 361/503-4063
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