Originally Posted by
Genghis the Engineer
Reduces the risk of a pilot fouling up and landing gear up!
Some would argue that it increases the risk of landing gear up. The pilot is being trained that it's ok to operate that aircraft without extending the gear before each landing.
They say there are those that have landed gear up and those that are going to. I took myself off that list a few years ago by only flying fixed gear. Only had the glider gear warning go off once in several thousand hours. That one time justified the effort of fitting it.