thats real good piloting, and since he cut off his engines, and there wasnt a prop strike that plane is still salvegable

This ones good also.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YCGCU9gkYWE

PsychoDiablo wrote on Jan 21^st, 2007 at 5:38pm:


from the view that we saw it did look as if the prop slightly touched the runway, even the smallest touch is enough to knock it out of alignment

Does that Beech not have an alternate mechanism for lowering the gear?

in the apache that i sometimes fly you have a manual hand pump - operation is simple.

Put the gear lever down

pull the pump handle out and pump it up and down until you get

1) three green lights
2) landing gear handle returns to center

of course this will only work if you have hydraulic fluid.

in the event that this does not work there is also an air charge. beneath the pilot seat there is a pin you pull that supposedly blasts the gear down with a compressed air charge. the air charge is the last resort... i have heard mechanics call it the 10,000 dollar button - i would hate to find out why it is called that!

the guy in the video did everything right... he had the door cracked to prevent it from jamming shut, he killed the engines right before touchdown, his passenger was obviously well briefed on the matter of evacuation procedures. the only thing is he left the master on... but i guess with adrenaline running like that you cant remember every switch hahaha

I posted back in July about my trip to Oshkosh... The planned fuel stop at Warsaw, IA turned out to be a long, straight-in final that included a GUMPS that never got past the 'U'   

It was relatively uneventful, as the emergency pump got the gear down in good order. It turned out to be a hydraulic leak that the electric pump couldn't keep up with. The creepy thing, is that during repairs, I was informed that there was barely enough fluid left for the emergency deployment.

Anyway.. since I had visual confirmation (mains in sight and the nose visible (barely) via that goofy, convex mirror on the starboard wing-tip), I just landed normally. But during my intitial assessment, an engine-off landing went through my mind and I quickly dismissed the idea of tapping the starter to get the 3-blade prop in optimal alignment with everything else going on.

They say, "If you fly a Cardinal RG, it's not  a matter of if, but when you'll be landing sans gear"..

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Oh yeah (but we try not to think about that)...

I guess the 177RG gear is even worse than its relatives (172RG, 182RG, 210). It's just a bad design...