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Re:Jeju Air accident in South Korea kills at least 47 by hansvm on Sunday December 29, 2024 @01:52AM (#42538172)
Doing so complicates other hairy scenarios because of the increased hydraulic/power demands, reduced clearance, increased drag on the plane, worse handling, and the fact that in some emergencies you want a gear-up landing and would expect pilots to simply make the opposite error (forgetting about the gear being automatically deployed) some fraction of the time.
Re:Jeju Air accident in South Korea kills at least 47 by Figs on Sunday December 29, 2024 @04:25AM (#42538804)
Hmm. Are those situations more likely than forgetting to put the gear down? (Serious question -- I don't know the answer, and I'm curious.)
Re:Jeju Air accident in South Korea kills at least 47 by hansvm on Sunday December 29, 2024 @10:24AM (#42540469)
I think so, and they're definitely more severe. Gear-up landings occur in something like 1/150k flights, and they're rarely fatal. Stalls happen in roughly 1/100k, near-stalls more frequently, and if unrecovered then they are almost always fatal.

The one plane I know of with auto-retracting gear had a fatal stall because of the feature, so it's not exactly a theoretical argument, but there haven't been a lot of empirical studies.

Re:Jeju Air accident in South Korea kills at least 47 by agubelu on Monday December 30, 2024 @08:06AM (#42548950)
You're talking about GA flights, not commercial ones, right? I do not believe that a gear-up landing occurs once a day on average in commercial airliners.
Re:Jeju Air accident in South Korea kills at least 47 by tekla on Sunday December 29, 2024 @11:02AM (#42540716)
You do not want auto gear down. There are situations where having the gear down might makes much much worse and you might not be able to be in a situation where you can bring them back up.