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![]() wrote in message ups.com... Nothing worse than that sinking feeling just before you hear the tortured sound of metal on the runway. Then discovering you have to use full power to taxi...... I've made it a habit to do a "short final Checklist"...levers forward, gear down and locked. It has saved me from that embarassing sinking feeling a couple times while distracted on short final. Ol S&B I remember many years ago we had a Bonanza land. He was going to retract the flaps on rollout and hit the gear switch instead. Then a bump in the runway lifted him off the "squat switch" and the gear instantly retracted putting him on his belly. We notified the FAA and they send an inspector down from the GADO ( now FSDO ). He flew over to our airport in one of the FAA's light twins. And proceeded to land gear up! We gave him a bad time about having to send another inspector down to investigate HIS gear up landing! He was a mite embarassed. :-) Highflyer Highflight Aviation Services Pinckneyville Airport ( PJY ) Pinckneyville Airport ( PJY ) |
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