On Jul 4, 2:59*am, Chris Nicholas wrote:
For what it's worth, the accident experience in the UK suggests that
much more expensive accidents, including some injuries, have happened
as a result of gear warnings going off and causing the pilot to start
pulling levers, and losing pitch control, at low level, rather than
the relatively minor damage of landing with the undercarriage up.

Of course, this should also apply to retractable gear airplanes which
all have electronic gear warning systems. I think there is no such
accident record there.

If a pilot becomes so distracted by a gear warning system he crashes,
any other distraction would do the same. Clearly, the problem isn't
the gear warning, it's the pilot's reaction to it which suggests
extremely poor training.