Thanks Richard,
I am sure that you have heard the expression that there are pilots who have
landed gear up and then there are those who will :)
A very experienced corporate pilot who rented space in my hanger recently
landed his Comanche with the gear up, so I think it's just an accident
waiting to happen.
I am planning to install Mark Burton's SmartASS so I thought I might as
well use the gear warning feature. In terms of human-machine interface I
understand that this is as good as it gets for transferring critical
information. You never know, it might help me one day.
Cheers, Paul
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Richard Lamprey
<lamprey.richard@gmail.com>wrote:
> lamprey.richard@gmail.com>
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> Paul, I have a gear locked microswitch mounted on the inner port side of
> the wheel well. It is engaged by a small flat plate fixed to the side of
> the LGO8P arm, such that when the arm has actually moved overcentre (ie is
> locked), the switch engages, and a green light illuminates on the panel.
>
> I thought about putting it in the gear-locked gate, but this only tell you
> that the lever is in the gate, and not that the gear is locked down (which
> are two different things, especially if you have any movement in those 3
> bolts attaching the gear lever to LG08S caused by eg turbulence).
>
> None of this stopped my from landing gear-up, when I had moved the landing
> gear right down, but not engaged in the gate.... no green light...my head
> was seriously in the wrong place that day... .
> Best
> Richard
> Kenya Classic 5Y-LRY
>
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> Read this topic online here:
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> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=379464#379464
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