On Jul 31, 8:21*pm, Mike Ash wrote:
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*a wrote:
In how many places does your pre-landing checklist say 'check gear
down'? My first time is at the OM inbound or passing the numbers
downwind, and my last time is in the flare! There's no way to know for
sure, but I suspect a lot of gear up landings happen after someone
aborts a landing and flies a tight pattern: a break in the routine.

Of the three gear-up landings I've personally witnessed, at least two
would not have been saved by this. The pilots in both cases believed
fervently that the gear was *already* down, after having failed to
retract the gear beforehand, and then moved the lever to pull the gear
UP as part of their landing checklist. I don't know the circumstances
surrounding the third so I don't know if it also qualifies here or not.

I'm not saying that your multiple checks are bad or anything, in fact
they make a lot of sense to me, but I wonder at how you might also
prevent the "putting it down twice" accident.

--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon

The way I've always taught this issue to transitioning pilots going
into retracts is to treat any go around as a normal takeoff and
retract the gear. Take it on around and do the normal prelanding
checklist again. The gear lowering is simply a normal procedure.
The key in these situations is to remain as close to a normal habit
pattern as possible.
Dudley Henriques