I was flying with my friend Mike in a 200 King Air inbound to TPA. When we couldn’t get three gear lights, we told the tower we would abort to work on the gear problem.
Tower:
“Would you like to declare an emergency?”
Mike:
“Emergency is such a harsh word.”
Tower:
“Understand. We’ll roll out the equipment anyway, though.”
(Thankfully, we landed without a problem.)
Dan Carr
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