If it was a revenue flight, assume they had some mechanical issue that prevented retraction, surprised they didn't come back and land. If they managed to cycle it and eventually get them to retract, I suppose they might have decided to press on. I have seen cases where there were maintenance ferry flights where the gear were left pinned down and were cleared for a one-time flight back to a maintenance base for repairs. My dad flew a number of those for ValuJet/Airtran. When he got to retirement age, he and a number of other guys that had hit the magical age of 60 used to fly for the maintenance shop. Pulled birds off the line, flew them to the maintenance base (used to be Lake City FL), test flew them after maintenance and then returned them to the line.
I spent 8 years flying the 76/75 for Delta. Never had to leave the gear down for cooling. In the 72 we had a QTA (quick turn-around) chart. We calculated how long to leave the gear extended if we had had high ambient temperature and a short turn-around. It was usually 2 or 3 minutes, and the climb performance was adjusted to reflect the gear down config.
What's the issue? I've seen this many times before. Gear is retracted so you speed up. It's not a requirement to retract it immediately after liftoff. Maybe they want a little drag to burn a bit of extra fuel. Who knows? If they would have a gear problem, you would see the doors open, but the gear not retracting, then there's a problem. No big deal.
That could be the case but I've never seen them extended for this long. I cut out several minutes from this video and I had eyes on it for another minute after this video-they were still extended. Also no other plane left their gear down even after long stop start taxiing.
If it was a revenue flight, assume they had some mechanical issue that prevented retraction, surprised they didn't come back and land. If they managed to cycle it and eventually get them to retract, I suppose they might have decided to press on. I have seen cases where there were maintenance ferry flights where the gear were left pinned down and were cleared for a one-time flight back to a maintenance base for repairs. My dad flew a number of those for ValuJet/Airtran. When he got to retirement age, he and a number of other guys that had hit the magical age of 60 used to fly for the maintenance shop. Pulled birds off the line, flew them to the maintenance base (used to be Lake City FL), test flew them after maintenance and then returned them to the line.
I spent 8 years flying the 76/75 for Delta. Never had to leave the gear down for cooling. In the 72 we had a QTA (quick turn-around) chart. We calculated how long to leave the gear extended if we had had high ambient temperature and a short turn-around. It was usually 2 or 3 minutes, and the climb performance was adjusted to reflect the gear down config.
What's the issue? I've seen this many times before. Gear is retracted so you speed up. It's not a requirement to retract it immediately after liftoff. Maybe they want a little drag to burn a bit of extra fuel. Who knows? If they would have a gear problem, you would see the doors open, but the gear not retracting, then there's a problem. No big deal.
Just floor it. The gear will either retract of fall off
I see others beat me to it.
Definitely hot brakes more than likely. Go spotting out in PHX, and you'll see it.
Sometimes left down to cool the brakes after stop start taxi
That could be the case but I've never seen them extended for this long. I cut out several minutes from this video and I had eyes on it for another minute after this video-they were still extended. Also no other plane left their gear down even after long stop start taxiing.
@@JBonesHangarDid they return to the airport or keep going? Any ATC traffic to explain it?
@@hanginglights7874 They must have managed to retract the gear, they went on to LAX. I didn't get any ATC comments.