Student practices landing with gear up

"BTIZ" wrote in message
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I thought that auto extend feature had been disabled by a SB on most
Arrows.. maybe only the older ones..

The '73 that I fly still has the auto-extend feature. If he was practicing
commercial maneuvers he might have disabled it with the override switch and
then forgotten to turn it off.

GUMPS. I hope I never forget it.

-c

On 2006-07-20, gatt wrote:
GUMPS. I hope I never forget it.

GUMP does not stand for Gas, Undercarriage, Mixture, Prop.

It actually stands for:

G - Gear Down
U - Undercarriage down
M - Make sure the wheels are down
P - Put the wheels down

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Bad form following up to one's own post, but I forgot to add that if the
gear up incident in the Arrow was bad, consider the fate our Grumman
met. It's fixed gear and it got landed gear up. Or rather gear removed -
a botched landing resulted in two of the three gear legs being torn off
- go around from a downwind landing, and went through the hedge at the
end of the runway...

http://www.alioth.net/pics/DeadGrumman-2006-06-17/

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"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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Bad form following up to one's own post, but I forgot to add that if the
gear up incident in the Arrow was bad, consider the fate our Grumman
met. It's fixed gear and it got landed gear up. Or rather gear removed -
a botched landing resulted in two of the three gear legs being torn off
- go around from a downwind landing, and went through the hedge at the
end of the runway...

http://www.alioth.net/pics/DeadGrumman-2006-06-17/

Did you do that, or was it a club plane, or something?
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On 2006-07-22, Morgans wrote:
http://www.alioth.net/pics/DeadGrumman-2006-06-17/

Did you do that, or was it a club plane, or something?

No, it wasn't me, it was a member who shall remain nameless. Landed long
downwind then decided they weren't going to stop in time after already
having applied the brakes. If you've ever flown a Cheetah, you'll know
that the earth is round so Cheetahs can get off the ground. A downwind
takeoff with a tailwind isn't the recipe for success.

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Dylan Smith wrote:
On 2006-07-20, gatt wrote:
GUMPS. I hope I never forget it.

GUMP does not stand for Gas, Undercarriage, Mixture, Prop.

It actually stands for:

G - Gear Down
U - Undercarriage down
M - Make sure the wheels are down
P - Put the wheels down

You forgot the "S" (it's GUMPS, not GUMP):

S - Are you SURE the wheels are down?

.... Alan

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