Time to play, guess that sound...

[PPG Doug]

Ok, to make it fun, cover up the description part with your hand while you watch the video... Then, "Guess That Sound".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YffmapFxt0M

[edypaul]

Thats the sound of Job security for the local aircraft Mech! :)

[jcarleto]

At first I thought it was the NDB Inner Marker..but it didn't quit after the threshold.

Clearly, it is the "Pilot is an Idiot" warning alarm.

I personally don't care for those "landing gear needs to go down" alarms. My Bonanza doesn't have one. What it is equipped with instead is a pilot consumed to the point of paranoia about landing gear being down on a landing. My landing checklist goes like this:

Downwind:
Fuel on appropriate tank
Gear down and locked
Mixture rich
Prop set for landing
Safety issues addressed

Base:
Gear down and locked
Flaps as required
Traffic Check

Final:
Gear down and locked
Gear down and locked
Gear down and locked
Gear down and locked
Gear down and locked
Gear down and locked
Gear down and locked

Touchdown:
Large sigh of relief
Gear still down and locked

Taxi:
Gear still down and locked

Frankly, a gear up landing is a level of vacuousity I hope never to achieve! I can't say it won't happen..but saying that, with the plane sitting in the hanger out at the airport, I'm wondering if the gear is still down and locked. :D

[CLS447]

I thought it might be the stoll horn & thought it was going to be REAL ugly !

Nice landing ! Save those tires for another day !

[Scary Gary]

I had no idea that DR.Gramaldi had video taped his cessna 210 gear up landing at lanssing ?
Wait ! That can't be DR. Gramaldi . There isn't 2" of ice covering the windshield .

[OuterMarker]

And the good Dr. would be blaming someone else for his mistake and then smashing a hole in his windshield.......

Scary Gary....how do you know the good Dr?

[Passin' Thru]

The sound you hear toward the end is a VERY EXPENSIVE SOUND!:eek:

[Scary Gary]

He knew it was his fault . The horn would go off even when his gear was down so he just got used to ignoring it . Or he pulled the breaker on it .
I used to take care of his plane .

[Passin' Thru]

He knew it was his fault . The horn would go off even when his gear was down so he just got used to ignoring it . Or he pulled the breaker on it .
I used to take care of his plane .
Now THAT explains it all!:eek:

[Terry]

Two grown men. I wonder if those noise canceling headsets had anything to do with the problem.

[Scary Gary]

They aint that noise canceling .

[MichaelBurton]

I had to watch it twice just to make sure it really happened. You could hear the pilots talking during the approach. I did not detect any panic so I guess they just ignored the horn all the way into the runway. I would bet the camera in the back contributed to the extra talking and attention of the pilot. Great example of what not to do.

[WaspAir]

My landing checklist goes like this:

. . .

Final:
Gear down and locked
Gear down and locked
Gear down and locked
Gear down and locked
Gear down and locked
Gear down and locked
Gear down and locked


Spend some time flying amphibious and you will get even more paranoid about it. For a water arrival, you must have gear UP or you risk tumbling and death. For a land arrival, you must have gear DOWN or you risk what these guys suffered. Get it backwards just once and it will ruin your day.

[amphib]

I agree!

My checklist mnemonic (which often proves highly entertaining to CFI's when I'm getting a BFR):

Downwind: Downwind is when you have time to do the most checks. The mnemonic is: Most Men Want Good Clean Cheap Sex. These are:

Mags (both on)
Master (didn't get bumped off - my old Cessna has a push-off master)
Wheels (not landing gear - it's an amphib - in correct position)
Gas (both)
CarbHeat (on)
CowlFlaps (as req'd)
Safety (seatbelts tight, loose objects stowed, etc.)



Base: Time is tighter, fewer checks. I become a CHiMP:

CarbHeat (check again, or apply)
Mixture (fullforward, or leaner if high altitude)
Propellor (fullforward)



Final: Only the things that could ruin a landing or go-around: I revert to my true nature and become a WiMP.

Wheels (recheck position, and since my gear is moved by a Armstrong bar, re-pump)
Mixture
Propellor

Works for me! :-)

I'm still adapting these for my gyros!

btw - My takeoff checklist, taught to me by my instrument instructor: Roger Rabbit, Can I Go Flying Today? (Runup, Radios, Controls, Instruments, Gas, Flaps and Trim)

[Scary Gary]

Most of my high performance time is in a T-34B and I was always paranoid about not getting my gear down . I just didn't want to be that guy . I would repeatedly confirm gear down and locked . And the NAVY controllers were good at confirming that your gear was down .

[dingbat]

Hi,

I covered the screen with my hands as stated... and listened for the sound..
Sorry Chaps.. i failed on this one.... could not hear anything for the dam alarm!





G.
LAA.BRA.PRA..........:plane: