Cessna R182 Skylane, G-WIFE, 18 December 2012
Cessna R182 Skylane, G-WIFE
Summary:
皇冠体育app pilot rejoined the visual circuit at Dundee after an engineering test flight intended to check fuel mixture and rpm settings. 皇冠体育app weather was fine, with a surface wind from 260掳 at 10 kt; Runway 27 was in use.
皇冠体育app pilot reported that he selected the landing gear down and saw the main gear lower as normal. However, he did not see a green 鈥榞ear down鈥� indicator light until he cupped his hand around the indicator, after which he did see the light. Just before touchdown, he heard the 鈥榣anding gear unsafe鈥� warning horn, but ignored it, assuming it to be the stall warning horn. 皇冠体育app aircraft continued to pitch nose-down after landing and the propeller struck the ground. It slid to a stop on the hard surface runway without the need to apply wheel brakes.
Photographs taken at the scene showed the nose landing gear to be still retracted with the gear doors closed. A reason for the nose landing gear failing to lower had not been established at the time of this report.
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