Victoria airport , looked like a small twin wheels up

[tomfoolery]

Has anyone heard any details about a twin engine airplane accident at yyj today ?

[pilotcirwin]

CADORS: http://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/c ... srchtype=1

A privately registered Piper PA 28A aircraft was doing circuits at Victoria International
Airport (CYYJ) and landed gear up, closing runways 09 and 13. Multiple aircraft were delayed.

[howard40]

ouch

[cncpc]

Ok, so that's an Arrow.

I was flying an Arrow once across the southern Irish sea, in and out of cloud, all of a sudden the gear drops down. I do a scan and see I've got an airspeed indication problem. Forget whether it was pitot or alternate air, fixed at any rate, put the handle up and gear went back up. Turned out the gear drops automatically below a certain airspeed.

Maybe not this model.

[cncpc]

duplicate

[azimuthaviation]

Those aircraft had an automatic gear deployment system built in for just such a case as the pilot forgetting to bring his gear up. They had a tendency to drop the gear at inconvenient times such as in slow flight, when at max glide speed after an engine failure or blocking of the secondary pitot tube. the pitot tube the automatic gear deployment system used is different than the instrument pitot/static sources, a fault there will not cause the gear to deploy. Piper issued a service bulletin to disable that system abouit 30 years ago, perhaps this aircraft had it completed.

[pilotcirwin]

I believe this was a case of, oops, pulled the gear handle up after landing instead of the flaps.
Interesting system though.

[Old Dog Flying]

The Arrow has, like most if not all of the light Piper products , a manual flap handle between the seats.

[pilotcirwin]

The Arrow has, like most if not all of the light Piper products , a manual flap handle between the seats.

Looks like it eh. Don't know why it happened, but it did. I believe VAM has it now.