"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
...

So if I had called the controller on downwind and reported "gear down and
welded", I wouldn't have gotten that reminder when I was cleared to land?
:-)


In theory? No. In practice? Almost certainly. It pretty much becomes a
part of the controllers' automatic phraseology: "call sign, cleared to
land rwy XX, check gear down." That happens to me more often than not even
after reporting the gear down; indeed, I made it a habit to call at the FAF
(which, by another USAF rule, is the latest point by which the gear must be
down), "call sign, final approach fix, gear down"--which was typically
followed immediately by tower with, "roger, call sign, cleared to land rwy
XX, check gear down".... *sigh*....

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