Beeps, squeals and honks.

Ha!
Got to agree that a voice would be much better than another beep or buzz.
On my third flight in the 303, I entered the pattern and this obnoxious
noise started going off. My first reaction was to turn down the freakin'
volume on that thing. Then I realized the thing went off when I opened the
spoilers.... Oh, I got it! This baby's got a retractable gear and that
obnoxious noise is telling me I opened the spoilers w/out lowering the gear.
I confess this to the gentle readership of RAS. Thank God I didn't have to
tell anyone at the club, "Yeah, I landed gear up. That gear warning sure is
irritating. Bet it works next time!"

Brent


"Jim Vincent" wrote in message
...
On my last ship, a Pilatus B-4, we had a PTT switch on the stick but only
a
hand held radio.

We went to Toys R US, found the best sounding toy machine gun, ripped out
the
innards, hooked up a 12V-6V power supply, and triggered it from the PTT.

What fun it was shooting down other sailplanes in thermals!

Jim Vincent
CFIG
N483SZ
illspam

"303pilot" brentUNDERSCOREsullivanATbmcDOTcom wrote...
Oh, I got it! This baby's got a retractable gear and that
obnoxious noise is telling me I opened the spoilers w/out
lowering the gear.

That sounds like my first flight in my new (to me) DG-101. I entered the
pattern doing my checklist, gear down, check spoilers, hey, what is that
loud beeping? Turned out that the glider had a gear warning system that I
wasn't aware of, and that I probably had the gear down for the entire
flight, pulling it up for landing. I look at the wheel position symbols
next to the gear handle, now...

Marc