Tony,
I know of five monos that have landed wheel up and two of those pilots had
over 1000 hours in their Europas when it happened, so I recommend an
"undercarriage not down" warning for peace of mind if nothing else.
I have Jim Naylor's system of a warning siren at below 70 kts and it works
very well. Thank you Jim. Before that I had micro switches on both under
carriage and throttle, so that if you closed the throttle when the wheel is
not down the siren activated, but that can be annoying when you are not
landing! However, better than nothing.
Best wishes,
William
----- Original Message -----
From: <tony.bale@virgin.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:47 PM
Subject: RE: Europa-List: Monowheel, gear warning or just GUMP?
> <tony.bale@virgin.net>
>
> Ron,
> We now have 130 plus hours with our mono and have never really considered
> gear lights, to begin with this was a concern to me as I fly a Piper Arrow
> and have lots of horns lights and auto systems to remind me. However, you
> would never slow down a mono enough to land without the gear / flaps down,
> and to get the gear down you must reduce to low RPM and pitch up - you get
> the picture ? to get to anywhere near landing speed (assuming you don't
> sideslip for 1000ft) you must have everything hanging out, ofcourse as you
> are also decending it makes speed control / reduction even more of a
> challenge.
>
> As an aside and purely in my experience and opinion, watch out with adding
> all the whistles and bells, the weight of the aircraft will increase
> dramatically with little effort.
>
> Regards
>
> Tony.
>
> Original Message:
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> From: rparigor@suffolk.lib.ny.us
> Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 07:04:48 -0000
> To: europa-list@matronics.com
> Subject: Europa-List: Monowheel, gear warning or just GUMP?
>
>
> Anyone flying have a monowheel gear warning success story?
>
> I am not yet flying, but from the 20 minute demo flight and what I have
> read, you will have a hard time landing a monowheel with flaps up because
> you can't see the runway. That is until you slip to landing one day??
>
> What are details of what folk do for a gear warning?
>
> Opinions if a gear warner is worth the effort, or is GUMP all that is
> necessary?
>
> Thx.
> Ron Parigoris
>
> Just heard of a friend land gear up with his Cozy 3.
>
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