Cessna 425/441 Conquest I/Conquest II
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 50; Flight Crew Total 7000; Flight Crew Type 15
Human-Machine Interface; Situational Awareness
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Ground Event / Encounter Gear Up Landing
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; General Maintenance Action
Procedure; Human Factors; Aircraft
Returning to home base; I made a gear-up landing. I was flying a very long straight-in approach with approach flaps (15 degrees) selected. The winds were; 350 at 8; gusts to Runway X. When I selected flaps for landing there was no landing gear horn. Not that I use this as a method for checking the status of the landing gear; but sub-consciously assumed I was configured for landing. Neither one of the 2 passengers heard a horn; or buzzer of any sort. Sitting on the runway with the engines secured; and the landing gear retracted; and; the battery switch on; the landing gear warning should have still been sounding off! It Was not! The system's primary function is to remind the pilot about the gear if some reason he gets a little out of sync. Sure wish it worked properly that day.
The pilot of a Cessna 425 experienced a gear up landing following an approach in which the gear warning horn was reported to not have sounded.