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What type of landing gear is equipped on the airplane?
What type of landing gear is equipped on the airplane?
- Fixed tricycle landing gear
- Fixed conventional landing gear
- Retractable conventional landing gear
- Retractable tricycle air-oil strut type landing gear (correct)
What indicates an unsafe landing gear position?
What indicates an unsafe landing gear position?
- A green light on the instrument panel
- A red light at the top of the instrument panel (correct)
- No lights illuminated
- A green light above the selector lever
How is the landing gear operated?
How is the landing gear operated?
- Pneumatically operated
- By a mechanical system only
- Hydraulically operated by an electrically powered reversible pump (correct)
- Manually by the pilot
What indicates that the landing gear is safely down and locked?
What indicates that the landing gear is safely down and locked?
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What does it mean if all lights are out on the landing gear indicator?
What does it mean if all lights are out on the landing gear indicator?
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Study Notes
Landing Gear
- Landing gear is retractable and tricycle type
- Air-oil strut type landing gear
- Operated hydraulically via an electric reversible pump
- Gear positions are indicated by lights
- Gear down and locked is indicated by three green lights
- Gear unsafe positions are indicated by a red light
- No light to indicate fully retracted gear
- A switch at each downlock hook actuates a normally closed (NC) circuit
- When a downlock hook engages, a green light indicates a safe lock
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