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Be-95 pilot reported failing to advise ATC of emergency condition to better deal with a landing gear issue.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1424793 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201702 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Travelair 95 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Cruise Final Approach |
| Route In Use | Visual Approach |
| Flight Plan | VFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying Single Pilot |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Private Flight Crew Instrument |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 15 Flight Crew Total 263 Flight Crew Type 22 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
On take-off; the landing gear made an unusual noise as it went up. Decided to investigate at home airport pattern. On a simulated approach landing gear lever was down with green indication and an additional down indication; while the mirror outside on the side of the left engine showed that the nose gear was not deployed. Communication was established with [maintenance personnel] for better service availability; at that time nose gear came down by itself. Tower was asked to physically look at landing gear and was reported to be down but 'cocked' and not fully deployed. A few attempts at deploying the gear were made until finally manual deployment. Committed to land; the engines were cut off; but still wind milling. Even though communication was established within class C; and was active with both approach and tower frequencies; emergency was not announced and squawk code 7700 was not used. Squawk code 7700 and announcing emergency would have given this particular flight the much needed priority.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: BE-95 pilot reported failing to advise ATC of emergency condition to better deal with a landing gear issue.
Narrative: On take-off; the landing gear made an unusual noise as it went up. Decided to investigate at home airport pattern. On a simulated approach landing gear lever was down with green indication and an additional down indication; while the mirror outside on the side of the left engine showed that the nose gear was not deployed. Communication was established with [maintenance personnel] for better service availability; at that time nose gear came down by itself. Tower was asked to physically look at landing gear and was reported to be down but 'cocked' and not fully deployed. A few attempts at deploying the gear were made until finally manual deployment. Committed to land; the engines were cut off; but still wind milling. Even though communication was established within Class C; and was active with both Approach and Tower frequencies; emergency was not announced and squawk code 7700 was not used. Squawk code 7700 and announcing emergency would have given this particular flight the much needed priority.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.