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Emergency Gear Extension
After leveling off, reattempted to retract the gear and it came right up. Now I had 90 minutes to wonder if it would actually come down. Fortunately, it did with no issue. The plane is in annual now so the gear system will get a good lookover. I suspect one of the pressure switches still thought the plane was on the ground. Hope that is all it is.
Anyway, I was talking to my mechanic about it and he said one of his prior Comanche owners indicated that on an emergency gear down landing you have to hold the lever forward on landing to make sure the gear doesn't collapse due to vibration.
I don't ever recall seeing or hearing anyone discuss that as part of the emergency gear extension procedure. I have the Comanche DVD now and it made no mentionn of this. Once the gear goes into the overlock position I would think you would be fine. I don't like the idea of having to have one hand tied up holding the gear lever forward.
Any thoughts on this?
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Re: Emergency Gear Extension
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