337 Gear Up is Saskatchewan

[Shiny Side Up]

They had that at one flight school, it still didn't stops some from peeing on the seat. Only proper and practiced aiming skill can avert that catastrophe.

[shitdisturber]

They had that at one flight school, it still didn't stops some from peeing on the seat. Only proper and practiced aiming skill can avert that catastrophe.

Or you could have sat down.

[Doc]

Guy left his wheels up. Seven page thread.....has to be something on TV?

[pelmet]

So, I used the "phone a friend" option. Apparently, the wing fuel just drains into the main tank on its own, when the time is right - how simple is that! BUT nothing told me this was the case - no placard was installed for this system (nor required, apparently), and there was no FMS to tell you this simple detail. Okay, so it would have worked out well in the end, in either case, but as the pilot, I would rather understand how the fuel gets into the engine, rather than hope for the magic to work after a while...

Reminds me of the guy who was in an open cockpit biplane and couldn't remember the approach speed. He called a friend and got the required info. Or so he told me.

You've flown 180/2/5 amphibs for decades, you threw the checklist away after the fourth flight, 'cause you had it figured, and with great skill, you've never landed with the wheels in the wrong position - well done! You're in the habit of climbing up and in, flicking the master on, and checking the flow of electrons, confirming the handpump selector is wheels down, and giving a pump or two just to be sure, and you're all ready for a start.... This time, you climb into a different 180/2/5 Amphib, one on nice new shiny floats. You flick on the master the way you always have before, but now hear a pump running.... Hmm wassat? Will you realize in time, that because you did not use the checklist, you have failed to check the gear selector is down prior to master on, and you're about to be sitting on expensive keels on the ramp? Someone was flicking knobs while you were away!

Pretty sure I saw this happen. At Downsview at the Bombardier open house a few years back, I took a nice plane down to be displayed for the general public. Among the other nice aircraft to show up were a couple of amphib Beavers(one piston and one turbine).

Never leave a nice plane alone to the general public, especially when kids are around and there were a lot of families that day. Those miserable little brats will damage your aircraft. Be paranoid and constantly vigilant while talking to the public on one side of your aircraft. A Chipmunk had its master switch turned on while the owner had lunch. The Beaver pilots left for the day after arrival and the kids got into at least one of them. Later on I noticed that one of them had a retracted forward float gear. My assumption in all this is that the kids selected and left the gear handle up and later on the owner turned on the master switch. Glad that I left a really nice but famous aircraft owner guard my aircraft while I had lunch.

[PilotDAR]

Seven page thread.....has to be something on TV?

Well, yeah, but 26 of the 153 posts, which comprise those seven pages, are yours Doc, so I'm thinking about one whole page is yours, and now you want to watch TV?

[Doc]

Seven page thread.....has to be something on TV?

Well, yeah, but 26 of the 153 posts, which comprise those seven pages, are yours Doc, so I'm thinking about one whole page is yours, and now you want to watch TV?

Lets make that 27! I thought about that just after I hit "submit". I admit it. Still, we aren't talking about the original subject any more. Anybody had any luck with hybrid tulips. I'm trying to introduce a lighter hue of purple to the already blahblahblahblah.

Did you actually go back and count my posts? Christ! There really IS nothing on TV! LOL!

[PilotDAR]

There really IS nothing on TV! LOL!

Uh hu... the girls are watching gymnastics.....

[Donald]

Guy left his wheels up. Seven page thread.....has to be something on TV?

Well considering you had the pilot tried and convicted by post #6, I guess the thread should have been locked?

[single_swine_herder]

Oh sure .... but we all had to wait and watch the drawing and quartering process ......

[Sulako]

This one can be put to pasture.

Locked.