I was in the right hand seat of a C210 on take off from Lighhtning Ridge when the captain asked wehther I had a wheel outsie - I replied yes. His response was well you shouldn't have I have put the handle up. Whoops - with partially retracted UC we decided to go to Cunna-bloody-mulla in Queensland because they had better facilities.
We went through the hand crank procedure and managed to get 3 greens but had to wait circling over the top for about 45 minutes to come out to the airport. Finally they managed to get the doctor off the golf course and the cop out of the pub and they duly arrived and parked the ambulance and the fire engine down the cross runway - not into wind.
I was working the radio and we had another aircraft on the ground we were talking to. I asked why they had lined up along the strip we did not intend to use. The reply I got back from the young constable was 'my sargeant said that this is where they want you to uput it down so you don't bugger up the blacktop.'
Our immediate response was 'is your seargeant up here with us' - 'no - the young constable advised' - 'well move the bloody equipment and we will tell YOU which runway we will be using!'
As it turned our the gear didn't collapse but as soon as we parked it the horn kept blaring and the greens went red - U/sed immediately.
