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| Subject: | Gear down, check 3 green, or "How to make your gear lights |
intermittent"
--> Commander-List message posted by: "Alan Kucheck" <Alan.Kucheck@borland.com>
Resending...looks like the first one didn't go thru.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Kucheck
Subject: Gear down, check 3 green, or "How to make your gear lights
intermittent"
All:
Here is the upshot on the missing green lights: there is a cannon plug
on the back of the gear indicator box that carries all the wires to the
box. This had worked itself nearly free and was the cause of the erratic
behavior. Once you get to this plug [a feat in itself], it is difficult
to tighten. My mechanic and I suspect that it was never really cinched
down properly when some panel enhancements were made about 2 years ago.
We don't think it will work free again anytime soon. ;>)
ak
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Kucheck
Subject: RE: Commander-List: Gear down, check 3 green
Given these early exit polls I'm happy to blame the runway. However, to
sustain the theory we would all have to believe that this bewitched
runway is capable of projecting its curse onto 19R at SNA on the return
trip as well. Maybe it is like an STD: I "got it" from OAK 27R and
"passed it on" to SNA 19R. Let's hope not. ;>)
WCG: 811D is a 1962 500A Colemill. I don't have the shop manual here,
but in talking with my mechanic [who does have it], it appears that the
only common wiring is at the breaker. Each light has an individual
ground. After I return from a business trip [commercial, back of the
bus] on Thursday, I'll take a look and report my findings.
ak
-----Original Message-----
From: John Vormbaum [mailto:john@vormbaum.com]
Subject: Re: Commander-List: Gear down, check 3 green
--> Commander-List message posted by: "John Vormbaum"
<john@vormbaum.com>
Hey WAIT A MINUTE! I had a no-nosegear light on an approach to OAK 27R
(in
someone else's 500B...turned out to be a bad switch)! It IS the runway!
/J
----- Original Message -----
From: <CloudCraft@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Commander-List: Gear down, check 3 green
> --> Commander-List message posted by: CloudCraft@aol.com
>
>
> > So, Thursday I'm on approach to 27R into OAK. ATC had kept me high
for
> > >traffic, so now I'm gonna drop the gear and flaps to get down
quickly.
I
> > >drop the gear and get no lights. I cycle the gear back up, then
down
again.>
> > Still nothing.
>
> Alan,
> Nice work!
>
> The problem is with the OAK Ry 27 R ILS. The only gear problem I've
had
in a
> biz jet was on the ILS to that runway.
>
> What model Commander do you operate? That will be a need-to-know for
trouble
> shooting. (Not that I can trouble shoot it ...)
>
> The fine thing about a Commander is that you can see the mains. If
they
look
> down and straight, they are.
>
> If it's day time and your spinners are polished, you can see the nose
gear
> down -- or have the tower tell you, as you so well know.
>
> Since you were able to cycle the gear up and down, any hydraulic
problem
is
> not the case. With a hydraulic problem, getting the gear down is no
problem
> either, but that's another story.
>
> We know it wasn't an "O" ring so must be a micro switch, right? Those
are
> the causes of all airplane trouble. ;-)
>
> Asking for emergency equipment is the tricky call. If you do, you'll
get
> your 15 minutes of fame. If you don't and you do have a problem on
landing,
> you get 15 minutes of fame and tortured by the NTSB and FAA.
>
> I always ask for assistance, get to meet the fire chief, answer a few
> questions for their forms and get thanked for providing them with an
exercise.
>
> (And no, Bilbo, I know what you're thinking. This is not my SOP for
all
> landings. Yet.)
>
> Wing Commander Gordon
>
>
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