A36 Bonanza Emergency Gear Extension Inflight
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- FlyWire looks at the Manual/ Emergency Landing Gear Extension inflight for the A36 Bonanza. It's not a big deal, not something to do in a hurry, read and execute the checklist line by line (you can see I read each item AND do the response). It's fun training, check it out!
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What a great video, Scott.
The manual gear extension demonstration is something to practice once a year. Doing one in IFR conditions is a good idea. Doing one is an aircraft with luggage stowed between the seats, and with the aircraft at gross weight are worthy scenarios. And on one engine in a Baron is a fine idea. Embedding a fresh recollection of performing one in each scenario is worth considering by aircraft owners.
You mentioned why to pull the circuit breaker. If you don’t, and the handle became suddenly energized while you are cranking it, the instantly spinning crank will break bones in the back of your hand (metatarsals), disabling that hand. Excruciating pain! Then you may be dealing with a compound fracture and a broken artery spurting blood all over the cabin. You are suddenly bleeding toward death. You go into shock. That hand is disabled. You can’t crank the gear another turn. You must install a tourniquet to arrest blood loss, or you will die. You still have to land. Now, THAT would become a REAL emergency. Never fail to disable the landing gear circuit breaker before manual extension.
Robin- I hope I emphasized it enough!
Scott, I’m a huge fan. I look forward to every single one of your videos. So very impressive.
A PUCKER moment when you try to REMOVE the COVER from surrounding carpet area...AND you DISCOVER...
that WHOEVER re-installed during maintenance
installed the cover INSIDE the opening (not simply VELCRO-ed to outside).
Rare...but it can happen.
Always good to CHECK proper re-installation after any maintenance work.
Yikes!
Very nice demonstration, Scott - I think you covered all the important dos and don'ts. The view from the rear to see the gear in (slow) motion was nice, and I liked how you did it in ten revolution increments, giving you time to make sure everything else was still going well. Well done!
- Martin
Martin- thanks, I really appreciate it! Maybe we should do a Colab one of these days. It would be fun, I like your stuff!
One of my partners had a gear failure on one of our BE-55's, and started to crank the gear down, without pulling the circuit breaker. turned out the problem was just a flat spot on the armature. As soon as he got it past that, it damn near broke his hand.
Really nice video, Scott! Several years ago I was flying my 1990 F33A and had to declare an emergency when the left side cowling came open in flight, and oil temp pegged. I was near Alexandria, LA airport and headed there. I did my GUMPS check and reduced manifold pressure to about 17 inches. But as I lined up for a short final, the fire truck was on the runway (because of my emergency call) and I had to go around. I was indicating about 100 mph, and decided to raise flaps and gear and leave the manifold pressure where it was. The gear would not cycle! I then requested a flyby so the tower could advise if my gear was up or down. Even though I was close, they radioed they couldn't tell! I then added power and-guess what? The gear immediately cycled and retracted (the gear switch was still in the "up" position.} At that time I had flown Bonanzas for many years but didn't know that there is a switch requiring a certain amount of manifold pressure to be able to raise the gear.
Good story!
Had to do it for real once in my 35-in IMC. I had never practiced it in a Bonanza but had walked through it mentally with the POH many times. I forgot to count but as I remember it was clear that the gear was down. Yours seemed to require more effort than mine, but I had some beneficial adrenaline helping me.
Since the underlying problem in my event was an electrical failure, I could not use the autopilot. This will often be true. I remember taking my time, doing a few turns then getting in a few scans in between.
Paul, excellent story! Thanks for sharing!
Excellent job Scott 🙏🏻👍. ... side note : you won’t believe the number of bonanza pilots that crank the lever (arm) clockwise landing gears up on the belly sadly!
Scott, that was fantastic. Very informative. You are the best. Thanks! Dennis
Thanks! And thanks for suggesting this for a video (did you see the credit!).
Yes, and I put your video up on Beechtalk. Thanks again!
My experience in the cardinal RG ,as a right seat participant, was a whole lot of pumping in the right footwell
Hard to imagine solo pilot having to work it!
Great video !!!! Scott thanks for sharing !!!
Great video Scott. Went out today in my F33A and ran the emergency gear down procedure!
Excellent!
Scott: Thanks for the videos. As a relatively new A36 owner, I have learned many things from your videos.
Nice video sir 👍
Thanks Scott! That was well done.
Glad I watched this. I have a P Baron and have only done the emergency gear extension at simcom in the simulator. I didn't now know how hard it got towards the end of the crank process. Good to know.
Scott, I am getting my first Bo A36 in 2 weeks, no complex time so my transition ( from a PA28 Cherokee) will start on my way home from JAX to PIA with my instructor.
I’d be interested in demystifying the blue lever at key phases of flights and how you approach it.
Great, clear , well put together videos BTW.
Andy- Thanks so much for watching! The Throttle/Mixture/Prop are vernier controls. Which means you can twist them for fine adjustment, or use the push button in the middle for larger movements. They are all shaped differently so you can feel what control your hand is on. The Blue knob is the Prop, I use it like I describe in my Engine Fuel management video. Basically full RPM, 2500, 2300 (for times I'm not in a hurry like instrument approaches), or full coarse if I have an engine failure. You end up using the Throttle and the mixture far more than the prop. Maybe I need another video;)
What kind of a camera did you use to show the gear coming down.
Is it permanently mounted or was it just for this lesson?
Temporary. GoPro attached to tiedown ring on the tail.
Scott, great video! Just a question though. Judging by the outside camera on the belly of your Bonanza, it appears the last 10 cranks were to stow the inner wheel well doors. It looks as if you were fighting aerodynamic drag in order to close the inner doors which caused the stiffness in cranking. At what point did you get the three green on the panel to show the gear down and locked? My concern would be a pilot could be so distracted by the last 10-turns he could literally lose control of the aircraft To be honest, I've never flown a Bonanza (on my bucket list) but do the inner doors have to be stowed to get a safe indicator on the panel? Keep up the great work, even though I don't fly anymore, I always enjoy the great lessons you deliver.
Michael- Great question. And yes the aerodynamic forces go way up in the last few cranks, and the distraction issue is one big reason to break up the process. The gear down/ locked lights come on about 50 turns and you usually get 2-3 more turns after that. You have to close the doors for the final lock.
I appreciate your comments and hope you can still get back in the air in a Bonanza!
Can an autopilot be set to circle in position?
Good question. I guess if the autopilot has a bank hold mode it could do that.