X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:50:22 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from mail-tul01m020-f180.google.com ([209.85.214.180] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.3) with ESMTPS id 5360328 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:44:02 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.85.214.180; envelope-from=dico@internetworks.ca Received: by obbwc20 with SMTP id wc20so2361845obb.25 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:43:27 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.216.101 with SMTP id op5mr5425276obc.54.1327275807740; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:43:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.60.1.37 with HTTP; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:43:27 -0800 (PST) X-Original-Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:43:27 -0400 X-Original-Message-ID: Subject: Gear minder alerts From: Dico Reijers X-Original-To: lml X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmS3drY7z3VdhjX3mX/98KZmto1lb+yI9599s0fWG9PUqupfxRGIspMHwoUhdC1+QbQ1/IT Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d0447864b0a12a804b7267bf9 --f46d0447864b0a12a804b7267bf9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello All, Yesterday and today were my first days flying this winter (or any winter with the IV-P as its only been "up north" for 6 months now). I noticed that the gear minder was acting a bit funny. Telling me that my "gear is down" as I'm taxing. Then after take off and I put the gear up, the gear minder reminds me about 4 or 5 times to "put gear up". I am usually quite quick to put the gear up, so its not like I'm busting any speed limit on the system I don't think. On landing, I put the gear down (at 140kias, for example) and when I get down to about 120, it'll remind me to put the gear down (about 12 times) even though they have been down and I have 3 green lights. Today on take off I rotated, and went to raise the gear the the solenoid that keeps you from raising the gear while on the ground wouldn't let me raise it. I tried 3 times and on the 3rd time it worked fine. The second flight today the gear came up with no issues. I'm wondering if the cold weather is affecting this or what the issue might be... where to look... I should mention that the plane has been in an unheated hangar (for 1 more month before it moves to a heated hangar). Thanks, Dico --f46d0447864b0a12a804b7267bf9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello All,

Yesterday and today were my first days flying this winter= (or any winter with the IV-P as its only been "up north" for 6 m= onths now).=A0 I noticed that the gear minder was acting a bit funny.=A0 Te= lling me that my "gear is down" as I'm taxing.=A0 Then after = take off and I put the gear up, the gear minder reminds me about 4 or 5 tim= es to "put gear up".=A0=A0 I am usually quite quick to put the ge= ar up, so its not like I'm busting any speed limit on the system I don&= #39;t think.=A0=A0 On landing, I put the gear down (at 140kias, for example= ) and when I get down to about 120, it'll remind me to put the gear dow= n (about 12 times) even though they have been down and I have 3 green light= s.

Today on take off I rotated, and went to raise the gear the the solenoi= d that keeps you from raising the gear while on the ground wouldn't let= me raise it. I tried 3 times and on the 3rd time it worked fine.=A0 The se= cond flight today the gear came up with no issues.

I'm wondering if the cold weather is affecting this or what the iss= ue might be... where to look...

I should mention that the plane has= been in an unheated hangar (for 1 more month before it moves to a heated h= angar).

Thanks,

Dico

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