Bonanza 36
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Flight Engineer
Air Traffic Control Military 9; Flight Crew Last 90 Days .5; Flight Crew Total 9100; Flight Crew Type 700
Human-Machine Interface; Troubleshooting; Workload
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft
Pattern only proficiency flight flying solo. Lowered landing gear for first landing and did not get a proper gear down indication. I did not hear the gear motor and the gear did not seem to come down. I accomplished a tower fly by for controller's visual assessment: gear was up. Flew to airspace to the southwest of the airport to accomplish the manual gear extension checklist. Accomplished procedure (pull gear motor circuit breaker and turn landing gear hand crank 50 counterclockwise turns) and gear came down. No gear down indicator lights illuminated. Performed second tower fly by for controller's visual assessment: three gear down. Flew to the southwest again to attempt to get gear down indicators to illuminate and to ensure all checklist items were accomplished. Turned hand crank a few more turns and was met with extreme resistance. Reset gear motor circuit breaker to see if that would produce a green gear down indication. No luck. No gear motor movement and no green gear down indications.Flew a normal visual approach to RWY XXL and had a soft; on speed touchdown. Shortly after nose gear was lowered to the runway; it collapsed. This occurred at approximately 50 kts ground speed. Only nose gear collapsed. Main gear remained down and locked. No injuries and uneventful egress.Biggest mistake of the day: I forgot that my license and medical were in my other flying bag.
A BE-36 pilot suffered a nose gear collapse after the landing gear failed to extend during traffic pattern practice and the alternate gear extension procedure was utilized but failed to illuminate the gear down indications.