This warning is often heard even when I am far away from any airport. It forces me to turn off the sound for warnings,but then I am not be able to hear a warning for stall…which would have saved me a couple of times. Other than that, I absolutely love MSFS 2020, both in the PC mode and the vR
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Depending on the aircraft, this warnung will occur when your throttle sits in idle.
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Flaps still extended?
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not sure. It seems I was cruising a few times but I will double check both flaps and throttle. I hope the problem is one of these. Thanks you your help.
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I’ve found that retracting the gear usually works pretty well. Have you tried that? You didn’t specifically say they were actually retracted. If you’re flying low and slow, down in the dirt, sightseeing with a plane that has retracts, maybe in a tubeliner, you’re doing it wrong. Pick the right tool for the job.
this warning is given with them already retracted…being far away from the landing pattern. But I now have a couple ideas to check out. Thanks.
You’re flying too low for the aircraft. Which one?
The Bonanza G36, TBM 960 and the Citation Longitude
if you download that mod for the Longitude it’ll fix your problem (and many… many more)
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I know in the Longitude that warning will occur if your throttle is set to idle or (I think) your flaps are fully down with the gear still up.
It’s also happened to me if the landing gear switch on my HOTAS is still up when I load in on the ground.
Retracting the landing gear will silence the gear warning? Interesting concept 
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The warning is triggered when the aircraft is in “landing configuration but the gear is not down and locked” what exactly is landing configuration depends on the actual aircraft.
Throttle below a certain percentage and flaps down more than a certain percentage/notch are usually the triggers.
In some of the Piper PA28s with retractable gear the manufacturer went as far as dropping the gear if you went into that configuration…not always with the intended result 
This forum have given me several possible cures. Since it seems not to be a common problem, I am optimistic that one of them will work. I need to turn my sound back on and find that warning. Many thanks to you all.
The plane doesn’t really know how far you are from an airport, so being any distance away from a runway doesn’t affect the sound you are hearing.
The landing gear warning will come on for a few reasons.
- You have the throttles at idle
- You are close to the ground and the terrain warning system is thinking you are going to land without landing gear deployed.
- You are in a landing configuration, gear down, throttles down but landing gear is up.
- If putting the landing gear up solves the problem, you are flying with flaps up above the maximum speed for landing gear deployment.
The Mooney will also sound an alarm if you throttle back with gear up.
Actually how the system works, is it sense’s when the throttle is at idle and the aircraft is not configured to land, in real life there is a switch to inhibit the warning. But mainly in a RW aircraft, you not supposed to have the throttle below the flight idle detent, unless your landing, hence the gear warning. So in the sim, just raise the throttle a little bit above the idle detent,should silence the warning. Hope this helps
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But the way the stock Longitude works is not how the real aircraft behave
So when your flaps are fully down but your gears are up, this warning pops up and it is indeed rather annoying. I find the workaround for this is to put your throttle just a touch higher than idle (if you don’t want to deploy the gear). The warning then stops.
They’re just trying to helpfully forestall your transition from “those who will” to “those who have”.
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Yes and in real world you can’t silence this one. Gear warnings can generally be silenced when caused by low throttle position with the gear not locked down, more modern aircraft the warning is inhibited above 500 ft radio altitude in this situation. When caused by flaps in landing position with the gear not locked down the warning can’t generally be silenced. Neither is there any reason to be in a configuration like that. I can’t think of any reason for being in landing config with the gear still up?
In the real world I haven’t heard a gear warning, probably in years. You are really doing something wrong hearing the gear warning in a commercial aircraft. When I was a flight instructor it was quite common, on small GA aircraft the gear warning sounds at low throttle position regardless of altitude which happens all the time during flight instruction, stalls, slow flights, simulated engine failures etc. We used to call “disregard gear warning due low throttle position” in order not to become complacent and get used to the gear warning and subsequently really forgetting to lower it on approach.
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