Medal Winners: Air Traffic Control Tapes

Geez. We'd catch a dozen gear ups every year when I was at GFK.

Perhaps that's why these controllers won their award. They didn't just
watch it, they did something about it.

-Robert

It got me curious.

I wonder if these events caused by malfunction or pilot's failure to follow
checklist.

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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Geez. We'd catch a dozen gear ups every year when I was at GFK.

Perhaps that's why these controllers won their award. They didn't just
watch it, they did something about it.

-Robert

I wonder if these events caused by malfunction or pilot's failure to follow checklist.

Certainly pilot failure. A mechnical issue would be caught by the pilot
99% of the time by the pilot when he noticed a gear unsafe light. There
are some very rare cases of gear not being down but indicating down but
that's not common. Its more likely a busy pilot not noticing. I've
heard tower call out gear up to pilots before. Usualy the pilots are
thankful but sometimes they are irritated.

-Robert

Toks Desalu wrote:
It got me curious.

I wonder if these events caused by malfunction or pilot's failure to follow
checklist.

A lot were caused by the pilot or instructor pulling the breaker so they
didn't have to listen to the gear horn while they practiced stalls or
engine out procedures. We'd let them know on short final and everybody
was happy.