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Landing Gear Horn

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Is there any way to silence this thing when doing single engine training? With the simulated engine at 11% that horn is really annoying.
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Re: Landing Gear Horn

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There is a 5A GEAR WRN CB on the LH Main Bus CB panel but I would not recommend pulling that!

Recipe for disaster IMHO.

They really should have put a cancel button on it that resets every time the throttle is advanced from idle.
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I believe many pilots are familiar with this TB20 video.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5McECUtM8fw
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Ed McDonald wrote: Tue Jun 14, 2022 1:52 am Is there any way to silence this thing when doing single engine training? With the simulated engine at 11% that horn is really annoying.
I like the fact that the warning includes a "check gear" audible alert and not just a tone like you hear in the video above. It makes it harder to ignore. I like Gordon's idea to have a self-resetting cancel button, though. That would be really nice.

More than just annoying, flying around with the alarm going off for minutes at a time is a great way to dull your sensitivity to it, making it easier to miss when you actually need it. Unless I'm intentionally practicing engine out procedures, I never let myself fly with it activated, so I'll either lower the gear or increase the power depending on the situation. Usually that means I'll have the gear extended well before I reach the traffic pattern.
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Re: Landing Gear Horn

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I agree, pulling CB’s is a bad practise. Ignoring the horn while doing single engine training is too.

One technique I use is when passing through 500 ft above the runway I do a gear and flap check despite having a horn and using a checklist. I really hate that feeling while in the flare and you think the wheels should be on the ground and you starting second guessing yourself about whether the gear is down or not.
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It would be interesting too know what Diamond's thinking was to not include the "Gear Warn Mute" switch in the DA62 when the have it in the DA42-VI.

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Re: Landing Gear Horn

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Not a good idea to silence any warning annunciators, in my opinion. p3dave can probably give more detail, but I remember a Class A mishap in Hawaii in May, 1983 where a P3 crew silenced the gear horn (there was a button to do that), then proceeded to land gear up. No one was killed, but that was a $65M aircraft (in 1966 dollars) up in smoke...
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Re: Landing Gear Horn

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Twin Beechcraft in the Uk silenced the warning whilst taking part in a short landing competition. They did indeed land and stop in a short distance with the gear still up.

The pilot of a PA28R disabled the gear auto extend option, I am sure that you can guess what happened on the very next landing.
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So the Beechcraft won, right?
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Re: Landing Gear Horn

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Colin wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 10:54 pm So the Beechcraft won, right?
I think the owner was too busy crying into his beer to collect his prize. :D
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