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March 14th, 2007, 23:37
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Boston
Posts: 104
|  Interesting day, gear wouldn't come down!
I had an exciting day yesterday. Was flying a Duchess and as I was setting up to land I put the gear handle down and nothing happened. So I recycled the handle and tried again, nothing. So I said, ok, no big deal, we'll get some altitude back and do the emergency extension. We did the emergency extension checklist and kept trying the valve but the gear still wouldn't come down!  So we start heading back to home base where the runways are 5 times larger. We turn the pump circuit breaker back on, bring the handle back up and then down a couple times, but no luck. So then we pull the breaker and try one more emergency extension and I feel gear come down but it is only the mains!  Keep trying and finally the nose gear came down and we had three green lights. Anyways, I got to thinking, what should you do if only the two mains come down? I remember when there was a jet that had this happen a while back and it did a landing on the mains (and applied go around power immediately) and the force made the nose gear come down. |
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March 14th, 2007, 23:55
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| Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: FL
Posts: 115
| Re: Interesting day, gear wouldn't come down!
Wow! Glad everything wroked out for you toward the end! Any words yet on what caused all of that? it seems like you had more than one malfunction in the systemS! |
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March 15th, 2007, 05:55
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: KBOS
Posts: 2,865
   | Re: Interesting day, gear wouldn't come down!
The Duchess by far has the gettoist manual extension.
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March 15th, 2007, 08:19
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| Old Skool  | Re: Interesting day, gear wouldn't come down! Quote:
 On my MEI ride the DE pulled the breaker on a SE approach under the hood. I caught it, and told him the problem and how I'd fix it. (Break off the approach, get some altitude so I could pull my seat back and open the little trap door!) He said, no, today we can't climb SE, what do you do? Daaannggg... | |
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March 15th, 2007, 10:33
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: san jose, ca
Posts: 2,035
| Re: Interesting day, gear wouldn't come down!
Would try G-loading the airplane to try and get that nose gear to drop.
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March 15th, 2007, 19:54
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| Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Boston
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