So I’ve been curious as to when do YOU deploy your landing gear when on approach for landing? How far out from the airport do you lower your gear?
For me I’ll deploy my gear when I enter the ILS Glide Slope lines And I’ll also slow down to my final landing speed of 150 knots and set my flaps to 20°.
I’d like to hear your landing gear and speed finals when you land.
I’ve always lowered gear when I am established on final, whether it be by ILS Localization or by Visual Verification, and I also wait for when I’m at my final landing speed and configuration. There’s exceptions for some aircraft but typically commercial flights I try to be in landing configuration at or above 2500 feet but I do not ever deploy my gear until I’m established on a final approach with runway verification.
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I’d say that depends on various factors and situations. I have little IRL aviation knowledge, and I am not an IRL pilot or similar; however, regarding the landing gear deployment, I do think that, generally speaking, being fully set/configured for landing at 5 NM or before from the runway during an ILS approach (or a simple approach at a basic airport) is good. But again, it depends. If I need to keep a high speed as per ATC instructions, for example, I will keep the landing gear up for some more time, and the opposite if I need to slow down in advance. That’s just what I would personally do.
Personally, I would keep a higher speed at that position, which equals around 10 to 11 NMs from the runway. Of course, that’s entirely up to you, but I’d say this is very valid when flying in a busy airspace, where things should be kept fast and always going. If you slow down to 150 KIAS that far away, you will slow down the entire queue of planes behind you, haha. But no biggie if there’s no one around you, or if there are other reasons for it 
Just like the pros in real life 2000 feet gear down to be fully established by a 1000 feet
I prefer to lower the landing gear when intercepting the loc (ILS) since I might be like few feet above the course pointer so lowering the landing gear gives a gentle drag and helpful if I am slightly overspeed since I only fly a380 mostly this works for me. So around 3-4k feet.
I lower at 2500agl
2500 callout
I deploy my landing gear as soon as I am aligned with the runway (2000-3000 ft)
Usually 2500 ft AAL.
No definitive answer, it depends on wind, weight, and plane for me.
between 2000 to 1500ft AGL
I personally like to lower gears at a 7-8nm final. When I fly a heavy aircraft (777, A380 etc) I lower them as soon as I enter the ILS cone so it helps me slow dow on final.
I mostly do about 2500 ft AGL or 2000 feet AGL
Very situational dependent question, but this is generally what I do in real life. I shoot to put the gear down by 2,500 AGL since we need to be fully configured and slowed to our Vref speed by. 1,000 AGL. But that can change. Flying into Atlanta, often times we are instructed to maintain 180 kts until the final approach fix. We also usually intercept the glideslope at 4,000, so I will put the gear down slightly earlier. This way the gear is already down at the final approach fix, so I can pull the power to idle when reaching it and easily slow to Vref with the extra drag.
Bold of you to assume I use gears. If I had to, well “200…100…50…40…30.. 20…”
i normally deploy my gear between 5 - 6nm out from the threshold.
i got this from watching the aircraft coming into my local and most if not all deploy around 5nm out
When final feels committed or when I need a bit of extra drag on a steep descent.
2500 ft AGL usually, very rarely later, if STAR is set up in a way that gets me established on the localizer below that. I don’t really ever deploy before 2500 ft AGL, but it would make sense to, as others said, to do so, if you’re flying a heavy, and need to reduce speed quicker. It makes sense to deploy it sooner aka at a higher altitude in that case.
In all honesty, I feel like I’m a more late configurer. Every main flap configuration comes down every five miles I approach the airport. On the approach, I’m like 20 knots above my approach speed. Once I reach 5 miles out, gears come down and I have slowed to my final approach speed. And that’s mainly because I use the 737 NG.
I tend to open around 1500 AGL. Just a habit I picked up from watching SWA land at Dallas Love Field, and they would tend to open around 1750-1500ft
