Narrative:

After doing slow flight in the landing configuration; and shooting a localizer approach and an ILS; it was time to call it a day; as I had a meeting scheduled. Reaching the FAF; the student lowered the landing gear handle and set 10 degrees flaps. The student waited about 20 seconds and stated only two green; and the gear in transition light was still illuminated. I called tower; and told them we have a problem; we were going to the practice area to sort it out; and would get back to them. We flew to the practice area; pulled out the checklist; and ran through it item by item. We recycled the gear at least 10 times; did emergency gear extension checklist at least 10 times; still no nose gear light. I had another instructor from our school fly under us. He stated that the left nose gear door was 'ajar'. The right was completely closed. I tried rudder to get the gear to drop; dive and pull up; steep turns and pull up. Anything and everything I remembered from hangar talk I tried. After the checklist I did two tower fly-bys; and unfortunately both times I was told the nose gear was not visible. I decided it was getting dark; and did not want to attempt any heroics in the dark. I asked tower to roll out the trucks (fire equipment); and that I was coming in on the longest runway. Seat belts secure; passenger briefing as to what I was going to do; and checklist. On short final; I feathered props; pulled mixture; and held the nose off as long as I could. The props feathered; and I still held the nose off as long as it would stay. The aircraft touched down on the mains; without any prop strike; and skidded about 200-300 ft on the main gears and the fiberglass nose. When the aircraft came to rest I announced 'evacuate' and all persons on board left the aircraft. No injuries; no major damage. A textbook gear up landing!

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Title: BE76 instructor pilot reports failure of the nose gear to extend at the end of a training flight. After multiple attempts to get the nose gear down the aircraft is landed with the nose gear retracted and the engines feathered.

Narrative: After doing slow flight in the landing configuration; and shooting a LOC approach and an ILS; it was time to call it a day; as I had a meeting scheduled. Reaching the FAF; the student lowered the landing gear handle and set 10 degrees flaps. The student waited about 20 seconds and stated only two green; and the gear in transition light was still illuminated. I called Tower; and told them we have a problem; we were going to the practice area to sort it out; and would get back to them. We flew to the practice area; pulled out the checklist; and ran through it item by item. We recycled the gear at least 10 times; did emergency gear extension checklist at least 10 times; still no nose gear light. I had another instructor from our school fly under us. He stated that the left nose gear door was 'ajar'. The right was completely closed. I tried rudder to get the gear to drop; dive and pull up; steep turns and pull up. Anything and everything I remembered from hangar talk I tried. After the checklist I did two Tower fly-bys; and unfortunately both times I was told the nose gear was not visible. I decided it was getting dark; and did not want to attempt any heroics in the dark. I asked Tower to roll out the trucks (fire equipment); and that I was coming in on the longest runway. Seat belts secure; passenger briefing as to what I was going to do; and checklist. On short final; I feathered props; pulled mixture; and held the nose off as long as I could. The props feathered; and I still held the nose off as long as it would stay. The aircraft touched down on the mains; without any prop strike; and skidded about 200-300 FT on the main gears and the fiberglass nose. When the aircraft came to rest I announced 'evacuate' and all persons on board left the aircraft. No injuries; no major damage. A textbook gear up landing!

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.