GUMPS/Instrument approaches

Many instructors advise instrument students to hang the gear out when the
glideslope is about a dot above center..the added drag starts you down the
hill, and it's awfully hard to forget the gear if you follow this advice.

Bob Gardner

"gatt" wrote in message
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Hey, all. Haven't shot instrument approaches in a complex aircraft yet,
and I'm getting ready to so I'm curious:

When you're doing a practice approach in which you know it's going to be
missed, do you complete/amend/ignore the GUMPS check? I'm guessing yes,
but I'm curious as to what others do. Finishing up my complex
endorsement
this afternoon, but haven't done any approaches in that plane yet.

-c

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:40:09 -0800, "Bob Gardner"
wrote:

Many instructors advise instrument students to hang the gear out when the
glideslope is about a dot above center..the added drag starts you down the
hill, and it's awfully hard to forget the gear if you follow this advice.

Bob Gardner


This his how I have always done it, but with a little variation. When
I intercept the glideslope, Usually at the FAF, I then lower the gear.
The only time that I did not do this, was when I had an engine failure
on a twin shooting the approach in IMC. I just kept saying to myself
as I was descending, was "DONT FORGET THE GEAR, ...." Once I broke
out and I knew I had the runway made, the gear came down.

Scott D

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