User manual
Table Of Contents
- PBY Catalina
- Introduction
- System requirements
- Credits
- Copyrights
- Contact support
- Models and versions
- Limitations
- Failure model and special features
- Aerosoft Sound Control
- Flight model
- Using the switches and knobs
- Interactive Checklist
- Avionics, 1940’s military cockpit
- Avionics, modern cockpit
- Engine Settings
- Mission
- Appendix A: Simplified checklist
- Appendix B: KX 165A TSO
- Appendix C: KLN-90B User Manual
- INTRODUCTION
- OVERVIEW
- DEFINITIONS:
- SYSTEM USE
- NAV: NAVIGATION PAGES
- CALC: CALCULATOR PAGES
- STAT: STATUS PAGES
- SETUP: SETUP PAGES
- OTHER: OTHER PAGES
- TRIP: TRIP PLANNING PAGES
- MOD: MODE PAGES
- FPL: FLIGHT PLAN PAGE
- NAV: NAVIGATION PAGES (right screen)
- APT: AIRPORT PAGES
- NEAREST Airport Pages
- VOR: VOR Page
- NDB: NDB Page
- INT: INTERSECTION PAGE
- SUPL: SUPPLEMENTAL PAGE (SUP)
- CTR: CENTER WAYPOINT PAGE
- REF: REFERENCE WAYPOINT PAGE
- ACTV: ACTIVE WAYPOINT PAGE (ACT)
- D/T: DISTANCE/TIME PAGES
- MESSAGE PAGE
- DIRECT-TO PAGE
Part B Section 3.1
Stichting Catalina PH-PBY Rev No: 01
25 May, 2004 Page: 9
EMERGENCY LANDING GEAR OPERATION
Emergency gear up
Hydraulic pressure ..................................................... Check (min 800 psi)
Gear ........................................................................... recycle
Emergency main gear down
1 Leave gear selected "DOWN"
2 Release wheel up locks by pulling out the "T" handles at the main wheel wells and
turning handles 90 Degrees
3 Work gear down by rocking aircraft and yawing from side to side, or push out by hand.
4 Use emergency lever to straighten main gear locking strut into locked position and
check reference lines to confirm lock
Emergency nose gear down
1 Unlock the nose wheel doors by pulling the door lock handle (located on the Starboard
side forward of bulkhead No 1) up and back, thus retracting the nose door lock pins.
2 Insert the emergency lever 1 handle in the aft end of the Starboard nose gear door
torque tube (aft end of No 2 bulkhead) and push inwards (anti clockwise), rotating the
torque tube to open the nose wheel doors.
3 Lock the torque tube in the "doors open" position by swinging the locking link inboard
over the lug on the torque tube fitting. Insert locking pin and safety clip.
4 Remove the tape cover from central nose wheel bay hole. Insert the emergency lever
into the hole and stake the end of the up lock sharply, to unlock the nose wheel, The
wheel should fail under it's own weight.
5 Attach the emergency lever to the torque tube between the packing unit and the jack
fitting so that the ratchet pawl fits into the teeth. Using the lever as a ratchet, force the
gear into the down position. To lock the gear use a slow heavy push. This may require
leg force to give sufficient leverage.
6 Examine the down lock through the forward nose wheel bay access hole. Use the
lever as a measure to determine if the down lock is engaged. If it is, the band on the
lever will be just below the floor level of the nose wheel bay.
CAUTION: After an emergency lowering release the emergency door locking bar and
pin before operating the gear again.