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The engine did a fine job right up to the point of
finding safety wire in the oil filter. Further investigation found a
broken bolt on the rear of the crank shaft. The engine showed no other
problems at all.
Check the oil filter!
Dan Reagan
IVP 650 hours and holding
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 7:12
PM
Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Gear Up
what happened to your current engine?
650 hrs is low time did you fly lean of peak?
anres
From: Dan Reagan <dreagan@fuse.net>
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Sent: Saturday, July 4, 2009 7:36:19
AM
Subject: [LML] Re: Gear
Up
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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