Chuck wrote:


Instructor hearing the warning klaxon as the gear starts going up --
reaches over and pulls the mixture on both engines. As the left one
(with the pump on it) winds down, the gear stops retracting. JUST in
time to keep the props from striking.

He's lucky it wasn't a Navion. On the Navion, the engine driven
pump will develop enough power to drop her on her nose from just
the starter spinning the engine with the handle in the UP position.

I know of only one Navion with a squat switch, the plane wasn't
designed with one.