{"podcast":{"title":"Aviation News Talk – Pilot Stories, Safety Tips & General Aviation News","slug":"aviation-news-talk-pilot-stories-safety-tips-general-aviation-news-582015","podcast_index_feed_id":582015,"rss_url":"https://aviationnewstalk.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://aviationnewstalk.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/b/3/c/3/b3c3e1ce0be5cb4e/News_Talk_Album_Headset_art-4_1400.png","author":"Glass Cockpit Publishing","episode_count":423,"summary":"General Aviation news, pilot tips for beginners & experts, interviews, listener questions answered, technical details on G1000 & Perspective glass cockpits & flying GPS approaches. 40 yrs experience flying general aviation aircraft. As an active flight instructor, I bring my daily experiences in the air to this show to help teach pilots and future pilots to fly safely. I'm a Platinum Cirrus CSIP instructor and work with people who are thinking about buying a new or used SR20 or SR22. Go to AviationNewsTalk.com for my contact information, or to click on Listener Questions, which lets you speak into your phone to leave a question you'd like answered on the show.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-05T00:17:21.334538+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/aviation-news-talk-pilot-stories-safety-tips-general-aviation-news-582015"},"episode":{"title":"411 Vision Jet SF50 Landing Gear Collapse: Wrong Lever After Touchdown +GA News","slug":"411-vision-jet-sf50-landing-gear-collapse-wrong-lever-after-touchdown-ga-news","published_at":"2026-01-24T21:54:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/aviation-news-talk-pilot-stories-safety-tips-general-aviation-news-582015/411-vision-jet-sf50-landing-gear-collapse-wrong-lever-after-touchdown-ga-news","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/aviation-news-talk-pilot-stories-safety-tips-general-aviation-news-582015","url":"https://aviationnewstalk.libsyn.com/411-vision-jet-sf50-landing-gear-collapse-wrong-lever-after-touchdown-ga-news","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/aviationnewstalk/Episode_411.mp3?dest-id=499762","summary":"Max talks with Rob Mark about a classic \"simple mistake with big consequences\" scenario: a pilot who possibly raised the landing gear handle instead of selecting flaps up during the landing roll in a Cirrus Vision Jet. The event looks minor on the surface—no injuries and the airplane stayed on the runway—but it exposes a human-factors trap that can bite any retractable-gear pilot, especially when you're trying to be quick and efficient right after touchdown. The discussion centers on the NTSB's final report for a Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet that landed at Watsonville Municipal Airport (Watsonville, California) on August 9, 2024. The pilot reported a normal approach and landing. Before touchdown, he had the flaps set to 100% and saw three green landing gear indications. Touchdown itself was uneventful. But during the landing roll—right about when braking began—the nose landing gear collapsed. Max and Rob walk through what the data showed. On short final, the airplane was properly configured: flaps at 100% and the landing gear down and locked. During rollout, both weight-on-wheels switches were briefly \"unloaded,\" and the landing gear handle was raised and then lowered. That sequence unlocked the nose gear and allowed it to collapse. The main gear also unlocked, but it re-locked before collapsing. The probable cause boiled down to an inadvertent control selection: the pilot likely moved the gear handle instead of selecting the flap switch to 0%. From there, they unpack why this kind of error is so believable. The flap selector switch sits below the landing gear handle, and many pilots develop a post-touchdown habit of \"cleaning up\" quickly. Some of that comes from short-field technique: retracting flaps can put more weight on the wheels, increase braking effectiveness, and re…","meta_description":"Max talks with Rob Mark about a classic \"simple mistake with big consequences\" scenario: a pilot who possibly raised the landing gear handle instead of se…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3164,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/aviation-news-talk-pilot-stories-safety-tips-general-aviation-news-582015/episodes/411-vision-jet-sf50-landing-gear-collapse-wrong-lever-after-touchdown-ga-news/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/aviation-news-talk-pilot-stories-safety-tips-general-aviation-news-582015/411-vision-jet-sf50-landing-gear-collapse-wrong-lever-after-touchdown-ga-news.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}