Wheels up at Torquay

[QNIM]

Gday

I hear that an aircraft did a wheels up yesterday any info.

Cheers Q

[pall]

Wheels Up.

I hope no-one was hurt.

Does the Piper have a warning horn that sounds gear up below a certain speed? I believe that Cessnas do.

Perhaps it was a gear failure.

Manual operation for many Pipers is a gravity affair, am I right. Not having a retract endorsement makes me somewhat ignorant of these matters.

[compressor stall]

yes....they are usually linked to throttle position. Some nut stranglers though have them set at or a bee's dick above idle power so you don't get inadvertant activations.

By then it's too late in the flare to go around, or it sounds like the stall warning.

CS

[Tarboy]

Maybe they just landed in the new clean fill on the runway and got bogged.

[belowMDA]

yeah CS the ones I flew you would closing the throttles a few feet off the ground before it went off. I didn't realise you could adjust when they were activated.

[mootyman]

From what I remember the auto gear extension was disabled due to removing the problem of unexpected gear extension thus big drag problems for an unexpecting pilot. Seemed to be more of a hinderance than saviour. Any gear horn or extension switch can be adjusted.