one landing gear doesn't extend

[Charley]

Several times now I've had one of the landing gear not extend for landing. The plane flies differently too  ,as if only one gear is down.

[GTFreeFlyer]

Interesting. I haven’t had this one yet.  I’ve had it where the right gear won’t go up, but it’s usually after a little bouncy takeoff and an error on my behalf.  For my own curiosity, can you post the track file?  We have no idea if you had a bad takeoff, got shot up by bandits, etc. 

Really need to provide more info when throwing up a post like this, otherwise I don’t think anyone would be able to help. 

[Charley]

Sorry I didn't save the track, next time I will include it  so I'm not ashamed of myself throwing up a post like this. But for the information needed  , this was from an air-spawn mission I made to practice carrier landings . No other aircraft involved , no take off damage.

[tityus]

Hello @Charley,

Did you check the Hyd pressure?  I'm not sure if this could be the reason, but next time you have the issue, retract the gear and flaps, make sure pressure is within limits and then lower gear ...  And then flaps.
 

 

[Charley]

11 hours ago, tityus said:

Hello @Charley,

Did you check the Hyd pressure?  I'm not sure if this could be the reason, but next time you have the issue, retract the gear and flaps, make sure pressure is within limits and then lower gear ...  And then flaps.
 

 

Thanks for this tip, I didn't even think to look at the gauge. When or if it happens again I will check that . I'll also remember to save the track.

[Charley]

I know this sounds pretty strange, but I had another instance of one gear not coming down. The plane didn't fly normally again, with one wing wanting to dip. I verified only one gear down on the F2 view. I raised the gear & lowered them again, but one gear still didn't come down. I was all set to send this track . When I watched the track though, it showed both gear extended. I wish I had taken another screen shot at the time so it doesn't look like I'm nuts. I did get a chance to check the hydraulic pressure this time though & it was normal.

Edited 2 hours ago by Charley

[seabat]

My experience was I did a crash and burn on a practice trap.  Looked at the track replay and saw for some reason the starboard gear was not down and wondered what I did wrong during the approach.  Then I remembered that my landing did not have a wing down skid when I was smacking into the island    Went and hit fly again and this time I missed the wires and plowed into the static planes on the bow with no dragging wing.   Looked at the track and one gear was not down.  Another try same end result but during the down wind went F2 after gear down and all were down.  Reviewed the track and video showed one up.  Went to exit program, re- entered and could not reproduce.  Second and third time I also double checked the gear indicators were all showing down.
 

No reflection on anyone else’s procedures or flights.  Only saying I believe my gear was down and locked but track was not capturing the whole picture.

seabat

[GTFreeFlyer]

1 hour ago, Charley said:

I know this sounds pretty strange, but I had another instance of one gear not coming down. The plane didn't fly normally again, with one wing wanting to dip. I verified only one gear down on the F2 view. I raised the gear & lowered them again, but one gear still didn't come down. I was all set to send this track . When I watched the track though, it showed both gear extended. I wish I had taken another screen shot at the time so it doesn't look like I'm nuts. I did get a chance to check the hydraulic pressure this time though & it was normal.

Still is strange. Upload the track anyway.  I’ll ignore the visual display.  I’m curious to see the flight parameters because I have still not experienced this, and would like to see if there’s anything I can learn to avoid it, and of course share with you.  

[Charley]

Here's the track in question.

F4U - 04 - Carrier Landing one gear down.trk All the shakiness in the track didn't seem apparent to me during the actual flight. I did notice difficulty in turning the plane though.

Edited 41 minutes ago by Charley