Ben

My Mooney had a big handle in the cockpit. Pulling the gear was like
changing the switch on the RR to get a train on the other track)
Never unlocked it from instrument panel until I was airborne and did
the Mooney 'dip' to unload the gear so it didn't take any effort to
retract.

Looked a long time before I found a bird with a manual gear and all
the other goodies I wanted on it. I just never had a good feeling
about electric gear on a GA aircraft.

Big John

On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 04:24:25 GMT, (Ben Jackson) wrote:

In article ,
EDR wrote:

DESCRIPTION AIRCRAFT ON TAKEOFF ROLL, LANDING GEAR WAS INADVERTENTLY
WAS RAISED, OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES ARE UNKNOWN, ANDERSON, SC

Sounds like one of those "power up, gear up, brakes off" takeoffs.

More likely the gear selector was up and as soon as the weight came
off the squat switch it retracted. I always touch the gear selector
and confirm it's down before I turn on the master.