ALERT: Gear-up light comes on with doors open!

[Ernie Martin]

Thanks, Herb. I know what the problem is: low battery. I hadn't flown in almost a month, engine barely started. It has happened before, and I normally wait 5 or 10 minutes into the climb before retraction when I know the battery is low, to give it a chance to charge. This time I plain forgot.

But the key point in my message is NOT why doors didn't close. It's that the gear-up light can come on -- giving you a false sense that all is well -- and leave you flying with the doors wide open.

Ernie