An amphibious aircraft pilot made a gear up landing during his biannual flight review because both h...

Attributes
ACN	1004224
Time
Date	201204
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Seaplane or Amphibian
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Instructor Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Flight Engineer Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 5 Flight Crew Total 28500 Flight Crew Type 2000
Person 2
Function	Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Private Flight Crew Sea
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 3.3 Flight Crew Total 207 Flight Crew Type 110
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Gear Up Landing

Narrative:

This incident is a gear-up landing in an amphibious aircraft a half hour before sunset. We were returning from a local lake as we had been doing water work as part of an insurance check. The pilot flying also stated he needed a flight review. On approach; I noted the pilot lowered the flaps but not the gear. I usually lower them together but we were returning from water work. The pilot wanted me to sign him off and plopped his log book in my lap on final. I said to wait up. The pilot; assuming I was going to sign off the flight so as to be able to leave to another airport right away. However; I had said early on that the flight might be a dual flight since it had been a year since flying. Early on his crosswind landings were not acceptable and I was intensely watching his final crosswind landing and failed to give a final check (gump) on the gear and we landed gear up. This incident was caused by distractions which I should have completely ignored. This would have prevented the incident. More attention to checklists was also necessary. Contributing to this incident was returning from water work where the gear handle is best left untouched! The gear up landing was our next landing.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An Amphibious aircraft pilot made a gear up landing during his Biannual Flight Review because both he and the examiner had been practicing water landings and additionally were distracted about post flight activities.

Narrative: This incident is a gear-up landing in an Amphibious aircraft a half hour before sunset. We were returning from a local lake as we had been doing water work as part of an insurance check. The pilot flying also stated he needed a flight review. On approach; I noted the pilot lowered the flaps but not the gear. I usually lower them together but we were returning from water work. The pilot wanted me to sign him off and plopped his log book in my lap on final. I said to wait up. The pilot; assuming I was going to sign off the flight so as to be able to leave to another airport right away. However; I had said early on that the flight might be a dual flight since it had been a year since flying. Early on his crosswind landings were not acceptable and I was intensely watching his final crosswind landing and failed to give a final check (GUMP) on the gear and we landed gear up. This incident was caused by distractions which I should have completely ignored. This would have prevented the incident. More attention to checklists was also necessary. Contributing to this incident was returning from water work where the gear handle is best left untouched! The gear up landing was our next landing.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

An amphibious aircraft pilot made a gear up landing during his biannual flight review because both he and the examiner had been practicing water landings and additionally were distracted about post flight activities.