Gear Warning

At 11:36 25 November 2005, Mark Newton wrote:
A wheels-up landing in an aircraft which doesn't have
an
undercarriage alarm is a wholly predictable accident.
Why is
there this attitude that says it's ok to see it coming,
yawn
about it, and do basically *nothing* to prevent it?
I mean,
you can stress checklists and piloting skill as much
as you
want, but we've built up a track record which says
those things
DON'T WORK to prevent these accidents, while building
up a
simultaneous record which says undercarriage warnings
DO work.
So why resist the fitment of undercarriage warnings?

So, your argument is that all pilots will land with
the wheel up if they do not have an alarm fitted?

Being an ex-limey (if such is really possible), I'll point out that the
logic of this rejection of gear warning devices is brought to you by the
same people that, at the beginning of WWI, didn't provide parchutes to their
pilots. They were concerned that pilots would bail-out as opposed to giving
it their all in the fight.

A few hapless pilots bailed out without a chute anyway, as it represented a
better way to die than being burned alive in the cockpit.

bumper
(saved once by the gear warning in a Mooney)

In article ,
Don Johnstone
wrote:

At 11:36 25 November 2005, Mark Newton wrote:
A wheels-up landing in an aircraft which doesn't have
an undercarriage alarm is a wholly predictable accident.
Why is there this attitude that says it's ok to see it coming,
yawn about it, and do basically *nothing* to prevent it?
I mean, you can stress checklists and piloting skill as much
as you want, but we've built up a track record which says
those things DON'T WORK to prevent these accidents, while building
up a simultaneous record which says undercarriage warnings
DO work. So why resist the fitment of undercarriage warnings?

So, your argument is that all pilots will land with
the wheel up if they do not have an alarm fitted?


Bangs head on table

Contratulations, Don, for winning the award for stupidest
comment yet posted in this thread. Which is some feat.

As you were typing it, you *knew* that my argument was nothing
of the sort, but you went ahead and typed it anyway. Well done,
mate, your determination and willingness to push-on regardless
of your own knowledge of the facts of the situation stands
proud as an example to us all.

- mark