Travelair 95
Flight Crew Private; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 15; Flight Crew Total 263; Flight Crew Type 22
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Aircraft; Human Factors
On take-off; the landing gear made an unusual noise as it went up. Decided to investigate at home airport pattern. On a simulated approach landing gear lever was down with green indication and an additional down indication; while the mirror outside on the side of the left engine showed that the nose gear was not deployed. Communication was established with [maintenance personnel] for better service availability; at that time nose gear came down by itself. Tower was asked to physically look at landing gear and was reported to be down but 'cocked' and not fully deployed. A few attempts at deploying the gear were made until finally manual deployment. Committed to land; the engines were cut off; but still wind milling. Even though communication was established within Class C; and was active with both Approach and Tower frequencies; emergency was not announced and squawk code 7700 was not used. Squawk code 7700 and announcing emergency would have given this particular flight the much needed priority.
BE-95 pilot reported failing to advise ATC of emergency condition to better deal with a landing gear issue.