Originally Posted by
detpilot
Ok, so how about putting it in a cornfield?
Seeing how off airport landings are taught in initial pilot training, yes aircraft designers can think of it and program it.
Originally Posted by
detpilot
And a computer may not care if the gear is partially down or appears down and locked, but most human pilots certainly would care. Same checklist or not.
Well you might want to talk to your training department, because whether the gear LOOKS down and locked or it LOOKS partially down, you will run the same checklist and land the same. In this case, you treat it as if the gear is not down, and therefore your tower fly by provided you with no more information, required you to do an additional non-normal (the flyby), and could lead you down the wrong path if the Tower tells you the gear is down and you decide to ignore the checklist.