Originally Posted by
btwissel
also makes the chance of a singe engine approach more real. only big airplane i know of that on a single engine approach you were committed when you dropped the gear. there was no go-around.
Depended on which system lost and if it was, I think, the B system which was the gear, no gear retraction so committed. If you had the B system you could retract the gear and make another approach. That was part of the type ride.