Personally I like the system that France used 20 years ago when they were
having too many wheel up landings and that was a big patch of green (wheel
down) and red (up) and all you had to do is a quick scan to see it was
correct. I hate these little drawings which these days I can no longer
see!!!
Ian M.
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From: "Peter Stephenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
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Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] accident rate for gliders in Australia
When I have decided to land, I put down the under carriage. Then in the
circuit, I look at the placard and touch (push or pull) the undercarriage
lever and make sure it is locked down, and repeat the locking check a
couple of times in the circuit in a OCD manner. I have had one landing
with U/C up and one near one. Both were in a Blanik (for those that do not
know, is not a disaster, just embarrassing). Both times I was early in my
career as an instructor in the back and I have not done it YET when solo
or with a passenger.
The first time, I heard my student do the checks but I did not check him
as he was making me feel anxious with his circuit and my head was outside
the cockpit.
I have also had one near landing with U/C up when the student (also a
licensed power pilot) picked up our mistake on final whilst doing his
power PUFF check. We did not do a downwind (hence no checks) as we joined
the circuit on base leg as were caught out low after some tasks.
PeterS
JR wrote:
When you do your checks, do you say them out-loud, or in your head, and
do
you physicaly touch or do you just look for where things are, I remember
an
accident/incident in a powered aircraft, that a rear seat passenger had a
video camera and was filming at the time of the emergency, and when the
authorities looked at the footage, the pilot never moved anything, but
actually touched everything in the emergency check list as he was shown
during training, never actually having an emergency, just going through
the
motions, ( probably in more ways than one ). Interesting though ,
JR
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