Then your horn is not set properly. Also 50x60=3000 so if
you are coming down at 3000 fpm at 50 ft agl, your landings
are something to see.

The Arrow system could be defeated in two ways. As I recall
the first gear up was done by a pilot who made a high power
very flat high speed approach to a runway and flared and
pulled the power off just a foot above the surface. The
plane touched down before the gear had a chance to begin to
extend.

Others happened when CFIs practicing/teaching stalls used a
small wooden block to wedge the over-ride lever UP so they
could do slow flight and stalls without the gear falling
down and without having to hold the lever up by hand. They
would forget the block.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

"Peter R." wrote in message
...
| Peter Duniho wrote:
|
| As for the warning horn, most retractable gear airplanes
are equipped with
| gear warning horns, and pilots frequently manage to
ignore them
| snip
|
| With regards to my Bonanza, this horn is practically
useless as it will
| only sound when manifold pressure drops below 12 inches,
well below the
| green arc on the MP gauge (implying that for the majority
of the approach
| the horn would be silent).
|
| It is not until power is pulled almost all the way back,
which in my case
| typically is less than 50 feet above the runway or about a
second before
| touchdown.
|
|
| --
| Peter