That just reflects a poor training program!

In every club I've been a member of, there's always been an operations
manager on duty at the takeoff/landing line. It should be his job to
verify gear down on every club ship in the pattern. Good training,
observant people, and functional radios should prevent gear up landings.

I would leave any club that wired my gear handle down.

On 5/15/2015 3:29 PM, Bob Pasker wrote:
On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 3:36:48 PM UTC-4, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 2:59:26 PM UTC-4, Bill D wrote:
Lets say you are deploying a retractible gear glider in a club with members who some might suspect of landing the thing gear-up someday.
I've seen this eventuality addressed on an L-23 by putting a ziptie around the gear lowering handle.
all of the club retracts I've flown have had the handle disabled, either with a ziptie or with safety wire

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Dan Marotta