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After having an "almost", I did not fly again until
I put a gear warning in the airplane. Distractions are hell (along with
age I guess) and don't think for a minute that Chelton gives a "check gear"
under all circumstances. For less than $100 and a lot of thinking I now
have a speed switch in the pitot system which turns on a light and horn any time
I am below 113 knots and the gear is up. This speed is adjustable.
Aircraft Spruce has the relay board and speed switch. It works quite well.
If anyone is interested I can get the part number. I am sure there are
other ways to accomplish the same thing but this has worked well for the last
200 or so hours.
Dan Reagan
IVP 650 hours and installing a new engine- hope to
fly in 3 weeks
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 7:09
PM
Subject: Gear Up
It seems like we have exhausted this gear up incident, except
that the object and purpose of the LML should be education and, as some have
pointed out, to learn from our mistakes. So I guess the question is what
did we learn? Hard to know without all of the facts Most of
us deal with it with checklists and technology, but these are not infallible,
and it seems like the gear up issue never goes away.
So I come back to
does anyone have ideas on how to keep this from happening? Does anyone
have a better mousetrap. Thoughts on how to set up gear warning systems
- both Chelton and MVP seem to do this well, how to never forget to use the
checklist even when distracted - this is a hard one for me.
Dan
Ballin
Leg2 #286
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