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Leaving the gears out. (Read 195 times)

Mar 5^th, 2006 at 8:39am

Ace_777 Offline
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I was playing football yesterday at my local park....whenever theres a plane I always look up.....much to the dismay of my teammates....but the plane i was looking at was an A340-600 and it still had its wheels outside !!. I live about 10 miles away from Heathrow and I just couldn't figure out why this guy (or gal Wink

) still had the wheels out. Usually they put em in straight after takeoff Tongue

but this plane still had em out.

Me confuzzled

I hope someone can shed light onto this

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Reply #1 - Mar 5^th, 2006 at 8:52am

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There's no way they had them out if they weren't landing-the only thing I can think of if they had in fact just taken off would be that they were attemtping to maintain a low altitude at a low airpseed. It is common to leave the gear out to incease drag on those kinds of manuevers.

Or, perhaps it was a malfunction. (I really don't think pilot error is possible in this situation) You're sure they weren't landing? If the pilots anticipate a heavy workload for the final approach, it's not uncommon for them to put the gear down early.

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Reply #2 - Mar 5^th, 2006 at 10:17am

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Must've been on the approach...

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Reply #3 - Mar 5^th, 2006 at 11:13am

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I'm more than positive that the plane wasn't on approach because after a few seconds it had put its gears back up and then it turned right about 60 degrees. It was so weird Tongue

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I think beefhole has the closest answer. It makes sense too me. But i cant think of anything else :S.

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Reply #4 - Mar 5^th, 2006 at 3:47pm

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It is quite possible it was a training flight.

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