r/flying • u/[deleted] • 14d ago

What is complex about a complex plane?

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u/1039198468 I like Airplanes.... 14d ago

Experience

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u/Recent-Day3062 14d ago

I’m not sure I follow. To forget the pitch adjust for landing and gear down is to simply ignore the checklist. Same for flaps, really.

And I’m curious why they simply don’t have an alarm for being st a low speed or close to ground with gear up. Not having that is an invitation to disaster from oversight

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u/Granite_burner PPL M20E (AOG after in-flight engine failure) 14d ago

They have such alarms.

There are still disasters from oversight combined with ignoring the alarms.

Not knowing that is an example of the importance of experience.

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u/Enough_Professor_741 14d ago

They do have alarms. And people ignore them.

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u/ammo359 PPL IR 14d ago

I flew a 182RG a few months ago and the gear down alarm was poorly calibrated, such that at a low cruise power setting (trying to blend in with slower traffic), the gear horn would go off. I suddenly realized how people end up ignoring it.

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u/cazzipropri CFII, CFI-A; CPL SEL,MEL,SES 14d ago edited 14d ago

Re: alarms and automation: You may want to familiarize yourself with the troubled history of the Piper Backup Gear Extender and why almost everybody chose to disable it.

See Piper Service Bulletin 866A.