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