IN-FLIGHT RETRACTIBLE LANDING GEAR TRAINING SIMULATOR FOR FIXED LANDING GEAR AIRCRAFT

摘要

When a pilot, fully qualified and licensed, and possibly of long accident-free experience, in the flying of fixed landing gear aircraft, desires to progress to retractible landing gear aircraft, the insurance companies require extensive flight practice with an instructor as a condition precedent to the issuance of a required insurance policy. The present invention provides a simple, compact, inexpensive simulator for installation on fixed landing gear aircraft, having (1) a manually operable actuator corresponding to the landing gear lowering actuator provided conventionally on rectractible landing gear aircraft, (2) indicator means responsive thereto for randomly simulating either correct lowering and locking of the individual landing wheels or a malfunction of one or more of the landing wheels, and (3) means corresponding to a conventional emergency landing gear lowering actuator for cancelling any indication or indications of malfunction. The simulator further includes a sounding device and a warning light for reminding the pilot that he has overlooked "lowering the landing gear" whenever he has cut the throttle without having gone through the landing gear lowering procedure, and for calling attention to the fact that not all landing gear lights are lighted when they should be.