----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009
07:36
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