Student practices landing with gear up

Dylan Smith wrote:
On 2006-07-20, gatt wrote:
GUMPS. I hope I never forget it.

GUMP does not stand for Gas, Undercarriage, Mixture, Prop.

It actually stands for:

G - Gear Down
U - Undercarriage down
M - Make sure the wheels are down
P - Put the wheels down

You forgot the "S" (it's GUMPS, not GUMP):

S - Are you SURE the wheels are down?

.... Alan

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On 2006-07-22, Morgans wrote:
http://www.alioth.net/pics/DeadGrumman-2006-06-17/

Did you do that, or was it a club plane, or something?

No, it wasn't me, it was a member who shall remain nameless. Landed long
downwind then decided they weren't going to stop in time after already
having applied the brakes. If you've ever flown a Cheetah, you'll know
that the earth is round so Cheetahs can get off the ground. A downwind
takeoff with a tailwind isn't the recipe for success.

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"Flyingmonk" wrote in
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steve wrote:
Bummer,

I had the Arrow reserved with the flight center I use, for next week
and for a couple of days in August.

They just sent me an email stating that a student pilot from the
flight center they share it with, landed it with the gear up. How
embarrassing, especially since the plane has an automatic gear down
deployment once it drops below 100mph and the manifold and rpm
resemble a landing configuration. He/she must have shut it off. It
has a loud alarm that sounds off in that situation, so I don't know
what might have happened..

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Thanks,

Steve

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

I think the statement(I can't remember who said it first) goes
something like this, "First rule of thumb when designing fool proof
anything is never to underestimate a fool."

Monk


Read sig.. grin

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ET wrote:
"Flyingmonk" wrote in
s.com:


steve wrote:
Bummer,

I had the Arrow reserved with the flight center I use, for next week
and for a couple of days in August.

They just sent me an email stating that a student pilot from the
flight center they share it with, landed it with the gear up. How
embarrassing, especially since the plane has an automatic gear down
deployment once it drops below 100mph and the manifold and rpm
resemble a landing configuration. He/she must have shut it off. It
has a loud alarm that sounds off in that situation, so I don't know
what might have happened..

--
Thanks,

Steve

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

I think the statement(I can't remember who said it first) goes
something like this, "First rule of thumb when designing fool proof
anything is never to underestimate a fool."

Monk


Read sig.. grin

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-- ET :-)

"A common mistake people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools."---- Douglas Adams

Hey thanks ET 8^)

Monk