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Continental 737 With Gear Down Over PHX  
User currently offlineBristolFlyer From United Kingdom, joined May 2004, 2135 posts, RR: 0
Posted (6 years 4 weeks 1 day ago) and read 1895 times:

At about 3.15pm today I saw a CO (737 I think) take off and leave the gear down. It took off to the west then turned back east over South Mountain ready to land again.

Any ideas what was going on anyone?


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User currently offlineOPNLguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (6 years 4 weeks 1 day ago) and read 1834 times:

This one, perhaps?

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/COA266

Based on what flightaware shows, it doesn't appear to have come back and landed, so maybe the gear was left down for brake cooling...

PHX has been on 25L/R and 26 for awhile, and the normal PHX-IAH/HOU routing takes you out on the STANFIELD departure, which off 25L/R and 26 is a 258 heading, left to 240 heading, and left to 160 heading and then direct to the Stanfield VOR. If it was a brake cooling issue, perhaps ATC vectored him out of the normal flow of traffic until the gear could be raised and he could increase his speed.

Just a guess....

User currently offlineBristolFlyer From United Kingdom, joined May 2004, 2135 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (6 years 4 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 1703 times:

Quoting OPNLguy (Reply 1):
This one, perhaps?

Thanks for that. It did seem like he wasn't increasing altitude when I saw him heading east, but then I lost sight of him. This was one of the reasons why I thought that he was going to land (also the temps have been cool today in Phx so I didn't suspect the brakes to have been warm).


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User currently offlineOPNLguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (6 years 4 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 1650 times:

Quoting BristolFlyer (Reply 2):
(also the temps have been cool today in Phx so I didn't suspect the brakes to have been warm).

No prob... Ambient temps aren't the only factors in brake temps, and there others that may played a part, if indeed that's what it was. My guess was the only scenario I could think of, given the info that you provided...

User currently offlineUAL Bagsmasher From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 2130 posts, RR: 11
Reply 4, posted (6 years 4 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 1563 times:

If the BTMS is deferred, the MEL may call out for the gear to be left extended for so many minutes after departure to allow for brake cooling. I'm not sure if the 737 has Brake Temp Monitoring capability or not though.
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