Bandit Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Had a minor splinchter tightening moment late yesterday afternoon. We were returning to YSBK from YPMQ in a Citiation jet after doing aerial flood watch work with the SES up north. Instead of flying the normal circuit we did a low and slow pass over the western end of the field. "Strange", I thought - even stranger was when the co-pilot reached for the aircraft manual. "Hmmm.." The pilot then turned around and told us that he only had 2 greens lights (nose and left) when he put the gear down and that they were changing bulbs on the errant landing gear indicator - fortunately that was the problem and we landed without incident. That on top of 3 attempts to get a Metro into YGFN late Friday night in cloud down to 850ft with rain squalls across the field and then being socked in with low level cloud in a Squirrel between YCFS and YPMQ forcing us below 500ft along the coast really capped off an interesting number of sorties for the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan2 Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Always figured that the best way to fix three reds is to take the globes out. Actually, Had to write something because this makes my 400th post . (wackydo !) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 A bit of a brown trouser time for a moment there glad everything turned out ok. cheers Iain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotspot Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 A bit of a brown trouser time..... Skidmarks on the Y fronts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skypilot Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 I had an issue once when flying an A36 Bonanza up victor1 to YWVA in daytime. For Victor1 I turned on all lights landing, nav and of course the beacon is always on. On d/wind to YWVA I put the undercarriage down and my heart jumped - no 3 greens! Ah then I remember a conversation I had a while back that if you have the nav lights on in the day time you cannot see the U/C lights as they are dimmed for night flying. Turned off the nav lights and was very relieved to see 3 greens! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotspot Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 if you have the nav lights on in the day time you cannot see the U/C lights as they are dimmed for night flying Same with the early single Comanche - a real heartstopper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandit Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 you would have thought that bugger the fact that its night or day I want to see those three greens as bright as the sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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