Backup for dropping the gear

Piper gear PIREP

The nose gear on the Seminole and many other similar Pipers has a coaxial
pair of springs.
In my case the inner spring failed, jamming the outer spring and resulting
in a nose idiot light not coming on.
Expecting a collapse, I landed the Seminole like a tail dragger and walked
away.

The springs are a few dollars. Replace them periodically.
My Seminole was on leaseback,
I was scheduled between two renters.
Better me than them.

Old pilots have paid attention to detail.
So said one.

Blue skies.
H.



"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
...
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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