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Re: Gear up warning

Subject: Re: Gear up warning
From: Graham Singleton <grasingleton@avnet.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:26:29
>  This gives me a greater feeling of security than a switch warning system 
> and I speak as someone who managed in his youth to fly 106km for an 
> O/R  silver distance in a glider with the gear down and then carefully 
> raise it before doing an otherwise immaculate landing bang in front of 
> the club house!    Happy landings!  David Joyce

That rings bells. I nearly did the same in my Long EZ. All the way from 
Blackpool to Sheffield gear down, then raised it on downwind check. The 
warning system worked fortunately. Also fortunately I believed it.
Graham



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