Backup for dropping the gear

In a previous article, Andrew Gideon said:
I've been reading the POH for my club's 182RG, and I find myself surprised.
The manual gear extension replies upon the same hydrolic pressure system as
the powered mechanism.

Isn't that insufficiently redundant?

The P32R Lance that I'm currently checking out in uses hydraulic pressure
to hold the gear *up* against springs and gravity - lose the hydraulic
pressure and the gear goes down. As a matter of fact, sometimes in
turbulence you get a gear unsafe light and you have to quickly cycle the
gear lever to repressurize the hydraulics.


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