Conquest Gear Trouble at YOOM
 

Heard on ML CEN and CTAF out in the desert of SA of a conquest inbound for YOOM with gear trouble, heard it landed ok... any other news/rumours/facts?:confused:

..Disco

As long as he did his preflight properly, the blow down bottle was full and he did his emergency gear down checklist properly and pulled the gear CB before he pulled the handle its almost impossible for it not to go down, short of a serious mechanical failure.

heard a rumour of a guy pulling the emergency gear extension handle in something like a PC-9.. he was left holding a handle.. :} apparently the gear still came down though.. they just recommended people didn't pull it so hard

Awww.... I dunno Gaunty I have heard they have trouble if the blow down bottle is not full and the emergency gear down checklist not done properly and the gear CB not pulled before he pulled the handle .:hmm:

Sods law is that......

tinpis

Wot I said.:ok:

The number of pilots who can't RTFC simply amazes me. Maybe its a comprehension problem readin ritin 'n rithmetic aint the same as when we was tackers, you know.:{

Or mebbe some smartarse CP has writ his own version for posterity:ugh:

Even had a CAA FOI try to fail me IR for not putting flap out on TO in a C402C at Mangalore, "all aircraft need flap for take off" :rolleyes:

Disco, perhaps you'd like to fill us in on your own adventures when you eventually get back to Portagutta! ;)
DF.

Mmmm....
 

Yes....there's a smidgen of irony to this... :)



520.

With lots of people watching....;)

Yes, must have made the high spot of their week even more exciting!

DF.

Wot? Did the wheels fall off again??:confused: :E :eek: :{

Yes yes ha ha very funny all very ironic now.... i reckon i jinxed myself starting this thread! All my lights were green though!

...disco

Yup, that was what the last pilot said as one of the mains folded under him!

DF.

Shouldn't that be "nose" gear Flower?;) ;)

I thought it was one of the mains, if not then I stand corrected.

DF.

Green lights
 

...Then that's all that really matters, mate. Could've been worse.

Reminds me of an incident in another place at another time where a C310R landed with 3 greens after a manual extension, and the mains weren't locked. So, obviously, it was really only staying standing up by the weight of the aircraft on them...or the grace of God, was another way it was put at the time.


520. :cool:

Yep, you sure did - two weeks in a row! :{

DF.

Oops!
 

That had to be said!!

Buy a lotto ticket, disco!


520. :p