ZEEBEE:
but if you miss them and there's no mirrors...it's only the gear lights left.
Surely the gear lights are a pretty good defense against a wheels up?! The last thing to do after a gear selection is confirm the cycle completed, by reference to THE GREEN LIGHT(S)!! (Have I just sentenced myself to a wheels up, next landing?
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@ CS
Yeah, I've wondered myself exactly the same thing as you described in an earlier post. Much better to have a horn going off as a "false alarm" (and probably occasionally at that), when a lower than usual power setting is selected in flight, than have the onset of the warning delayed when a pilot is inadvertantly making an approach without the wheels!
Maybe it's an issue that's more a function of the difference between a normal power setting for late in an approach, and what might be used in other situations.
CR.