Narrative:

On approach to the runway I was instructed to report 2 mile final. At approximately 4 mile final I selected gear down and witnessed nose and left main gear light illuminated but no right main. At this point before my landing check is complete and I am ready for landing. I played with the light to see if perhaps the bulb was out. At this point approximately 1 mile has passed. Moments away from deciding to go around and try and troubleshoot the landing gear; the right landing gear indicator light illuminated indicating down and locked. So I checked and double checked the light to make sure that it was in fact illuminated. Now no more than 2.5 miles from touchdown nerves shaken and adrenalin pumping that I may have just had my first emergency I am confident that the gear is down and locked. Well in the aftermath of dealing with the landing gear situation and everything going ten times faster when you feel like that; I forgot to make my 2 mile final position report and continued my approach to landing and landed without a landing clearance. There is almost no acceptable excuse for landing without a clearance and I completely accept full responsibility for the fact that I let the situation get ahead of me and continued without clearance. I never realized what I had done until upon taxi I was instructed to call tower. There are many things I could have done differently and better ways I could have handled it; after all hindsight is always 20/20 but I was mostly glad that the gear was locked upon touchdown and that there was no major accident.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A PA28 pilot landed without clearance because he was distracted troubleshooting a right main landing gear light not illuminated. On short final; the light finally illuminated.

Narrative: On approach to the runway I was instructed to report 2 mile final. At approximately 4 mile final I selected gear down and witnessed nose and left main gear light illuminated but no right main. At this point before my landing check is complete and I am ready for landing. I played with the light to see if perhaps the bulb was out. At this point approximately 1 mile has passed. Moments away from deciding to go around and try and troubleshoot the landing gear; the right landing gear indicator light illuminated indicating down and locked. So I checked and double checked the light to make sure that it was in fact illuminated. Now no more than 2.5 miles from touchdown nerves shaken and adrenalin pumping that I may have just had my first emergency I am confident that the gear is down and locked. Well in the aftermath of dealing with the landing gear situation and everything going ten times faster when you feel like that; I forgot to make my 2 mile final position report and continued my approach to landing and landed without a landing clearance. There is almost no acceptable excuse for landing without a clearance and I completely accept full responsibility for the fact that I let the situation get ahead of me and continued without clearance. I never realized what I had done until upon taxi I was instructed to call tower. There are many things I could have done differently and better ways I could have handled it; after all hindsight is always 20/20 but I was mostly glad that the gear was locked upon touchdown and that there was no major accident.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.