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In flight landing gear failure - captaincarl - 15-08-2007
Hi all, i did a search of the forums and didnt find the answer i was looking for
I was just about to land at Ronaldsway and went to lower the landing gear and the co pilot says we have a problem with the landing gear,
I suspect their only half deployed. So i saw that only the little doors had opened and the landing gear hadn't came down. I tried 2 ways to
lower it one by pressing ctrl+G and the other way which i think is pushing the plane up and down? << Not to sure on that one.So is there
a way to actually lower the gear when there is a failure?
Thanks for your help,
Carl
Re: In flight landing gear failure - Drew - 15-08-2007
Belly landing time for you
To your question, if the didnt come down at all, then no you cant lower them. If they came down but didnt lock, then you can get them to lock by touch
and go.
Re: In flight landing gear failure - captaincarl - 15-08-2007
Ah right ok, yeah i did a belly landing in the end
was great fun
Re: In flight landing gear failure - LUPilot4God - 15-08-2007
negative to positive g's can lock a gear down. it was one of the procedures we had in our arrow if everything possible failed, no green
lights, no hydraulic pressure and the door(s) were stuck, pitch down to build speed, pitch up quickly adding full throttle and at the top of
the parabola as you approach stall speed, pull the power to idle and push full forward on the yoke to go into "negative g's" hold it there to
build up speed to around 100 120 knots on the back side of the parabola and then pull back fairly hard, the positive g's you experience
then can sometimes be enough to get the doors to drop and the gears to lock. If that didn't happen we were told to prepare to belly land
the aircraft. :-/ not something I'd ever want to do.
Re: In flight landing gear failure - Charles King - 31-08-2007
I just had my first landing gear failure on my Cessna 210P. I killed the engine when I was over the runway and took her down. The crash did $63,000
worth of damage. The wings, engine, belly, and landing gear were destroyed on impact. The passenger, co-pilot, and pilot all survived with no
injuries. For some reason, the maintenance man did not recommend to sell the wreck. I don't have that kinda of money to repair the aircraft just yet,
and not sure if I want to take the 2% insurance rate increase to repair it.