Gear Warning

Graeme Cant wrote:


Before it made its recommendation, did the BGA try to find out how many
accidents were PREVENTED by the presence of a warning system? I know
many gear-up landings on grass are fairly innocuous but a number are
not. What is the balance between accidents prevented by gear warnings
versus accidents 'caused' (in BGA terms) by them?

For example, have pilots avoided injuries during off-airfield landings
because they put the wheel down when the warning went off? Landing on a
smooth grass runway is one thing; it can be much more hazardous in a
rocky pasture, one with irrigation feed pipes sticking up a few inches,
or sliding through a fence because your brake doesn't work when it's
inside the glider.

Of course, there might be off-airfield crashes that could have the gear
warning as a factor.


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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA