A lot of extra grease is applied to the gear, and removed afterwards plus a few other bits of black magic. The Twotters have both been doing it for years. The Islanders seemed to last with the airline aboout twenty years, but they were hammered hard.
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It’s funny the things we get paid to do in other people’s airplanes that we wouldn’t do in ours! 
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Oh I know you, if it were to save someone from serious harm you wouldn’t think twice.
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Only in the employers aircraft which I often did. Never mine. The wheels are narrow and it would sink in
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Someone’s just been sacked I reckon
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BA version of taking the knee
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That is one of my OCD fears when putting the airplane to bed…… just recently I woke up at 4am in a bit of a panic because I couldn’t for the life of me remember if I had installed the gear pins on the airplane the night before after getting back from a trip…. So I drove an hour to the airport to check. They were right where they should have been. 
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A man after my own heart @PaulRix.
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For me it’s leaving an engine running. I have all these little tics to help me remember that I did in fact check the start switches and fuel flow before I left the pit. But I still sometimes find myself walking into the terminal and searching for a window with a view of the left engine.
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Ha…mine are pretty simple. Close the clamshell door…then look through the pilot side storm window to ensure:
BAT off
Standby gyro off
EMER lights off
Brake off
If I don’t look through the window and say those four things aloud…I’ll invariably be trekking back across the ramp in 10 minutes to double check it…
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When they make one that can tow a trailer I’m totally on board
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The importance of a thorough preflight … Steveo found a bullet hole in the top of his plane …
“If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands!”. Don’t shoot your gun at the sky LOL!
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HOLY HELL!
Cold blood - call this guy Iceman.
The pilot debrief what happened.
https://youtu.be/x3NTfiW17QA
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He did exceptionally well…he could be my wingman anytime. 
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I hope I am half as cool as that guy is when it happens to me. Bravo.
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Here’s a quickie, but nice to see inside a PT6A:
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