Quick pre-takeoff gear hydraulic check

[hharney]

Standard procedure on the Piper Navajo and Cheyenne's. It's on the checklist before takeoff and before landing. Nothing new but Cessna never caught on to the idea. It's not a bad idea but I only do it about every 4-6 flights. Seems redundant to do every flight when you really know the airplane.

The procedure checks each hydraulic pump also. On start up you check the first engine started to be sure that pump is producing and on shut down you turn off that engine you checked on startup first so you can check the opposite pump before shutting down this engine.

Piper, they do things simple compared to Cessna. Cessna changed things every year they built the Skymaster. Once Piper had a system they used it throughout many years of different aircraft. Not saying Cessna was wrong, just different. They did sell more manuals that way too.