Hey Ron!
I have been flying the mono 5 years now and have not had a single incident
where
I forgot to put the gear down. It is the first thing I do on the landing
checklist and
I check it again on short final. The retract handle is also the up/down
indicator. Also,
the aircraft is very hard to slow down to 65 - 70 mph without dropping the
flaps and
you would never see the runway to do the approach (unless you were doing 100
plus!)
I think one would have to get extremely confused to blow it but maybe
someone could
manage it! I did have one takeoff where I forgot to retract the flaps/gear
but I climbed
1000 ft easily before noticing. I also have no stall warner or stall strips
although I think the
talking ASI would be nice.
Glenn
>From: <rparigor@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
>Reply-To: europa-list@matronics.com
>To: <europa-list@matronics.com>
>Subject: Europa-List: Monowheel, gear warning or just GUMP?
>Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 07:04:48 -0000
>
>
>Anyone flying have a monowheel gear warning success story?
>
>I am not yet flying, but from the 20 minute demo flight and what I have
>read, you will have a hard time landing a monowheel with flaps up because
>you can't see the runway. That is until you slip to landing one day??
>
>What are details of what folk do for a gear warning?
>
>Opinions if a gear warner is worth the effort, or is GUMP all that is
>necessary?
>
>Thx.
>Ron Parigoris
>
>Just heard of a friend land gear up with his Cozy 3.
>
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