Again, it's just an other layer of safety. It is not a reminder, all the time, for you to lower your gear, but just an other occasion to check the gear. At that point, you should have checked the gear 2 times already (once after lowering it, and once for the pre-landing check).Mrs.Robinson wrote:There was a crash of a big airliner that took off with flaps 0, all dead. Name me a crash have a big airliner that crashed, with all dead on board because of a gear up landing. So pulling numbers out of my a$$ I think it would be more important for tower to confirm flaps are at T/O.
I for one would not want the false sense of security, knowing that tower will always ask me to confirm 3 green. what if I'm at an uncontrolled airport and forget, and I cry, but no told me to confirm gear down. I could make an argument that tower asking for 3 green makes gear ups my likely.
Again, you may be a god, but normally, I have more trouble keeping a good flow when I'm flying the airplane than when I'm sitting at the button of the runway, waiting for take off.
That "Check gear" thing has been around for decades in the military.








