Not sure what you mean by "normal"...? It certainly is for
all the Cessna retractable singles - yours hasn't been singled
out for special treatment. As to whether it's a good idea, well
no, it sure doesn't seem so. But that's the way it is.

I've had to hand-pump mine once, when a switch in the
pump circuit failed. It's a nasty moment when the gear doesn't
go down, and a very pleasant feeling when that green light
comes on. Failure of a seal anywhere in the hydraulics means
you'll be using a lot of power to taxi off the runway. According
to Aviation Consumer it's rare (amongst failures) but not unknown.

John

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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I've been reading the POH for my club's 182RG, and I find myself
surprised.
The manual gear extension replies upon the same hydrolic pressure system
as
the powered mechanism.

Isn't that insufficiently redundant?

I'm not sure what I expected - perhaps something purely mechanical. But I
didn't expect a lone pressure system to be a single point of failure.

Is this normal?

- Andrew

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