No unemployment pay for gear up landing co pilot

They both must have been in the 'single pilot' mode.
 
One would think a plane like that would have about 4 different warnings that the gear wasn't down??
 
No retract for me! :). There are way better pilots than I am that have landed gear up.
 
I'm not sure how the PC12 is set up but if you have flaps up and a high enough power setting, you'd probably not get the horn. This is possible in the king air.
 
I don't get it, these things have full glass and computers. They know the speed, they know the altitude, they know where they are in the world.

It wouldn't be hard to have an alarm that go off if less than X ft over the ground coming into an airport (or close). Or some better condition that they can come up with.

I get the flaps/speed alarm, you need redundancy just in case, but I don't see the other one hard to implement.
 
Fascinating that Piper figured out auto-gear extension a long time ago with the Arrow. Not a perfect system, but for as simple as it is, it works. Apparently the price of a PC-12 doesn't buy you the same protection.
 
Jeff Oslick said:
Fascinating that Piper figured out auto-gear extension a long time ago with the Arrow. Not a perfect system, but for as simple as it is, it works. Apparently the price of a PC-12 doesn't buy you the same protection.
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Man you beat me to it. I was gonna mention my Arrow's gear-o-matic. Sucker is insufferable. All it wants to do is lower that gear. :D I used to get annoyed at it but to be honest, even if it inadvertently comes down on a forced landing the airplane was gonna get bent anyways so I don't mind it. Plus it has an override latch.

Seriously the thing is stupid simple. It's just a diaphragm based on pitot pressure. A digital sensor and output PC-12 gear system would be equally stupid easy.
 
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