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I can understand why this would not be done during the landing phase (redundancy by keeping the gear pressurized down, reduced crew workload during highly critical phase of flight), but why is the lever not selected back to to OFF after landing?Įvery procedure I can find lists the gear lever as DOWN on the ground: The gear is then lowered by selecting DOWN before landing, but it is not selected back to OFF after the landing gear is extended. (Boeing 737 NG FCOMv1 NP.21.46 - Normal Procedures - Amplified Procedures)

Set the landing gear lever to OFF after landing gear retraction is complete.

Pilot Monitoring After flap retraction is complete: The gear lever is typically set to the OFF position after the gear is retracted during the takeoff and the system therefore remains unpressurized during the flight: See also Why does the landing gear control have 3 positions (up/down/off) on Boeing 737-800? OFF (or NEUTRAL for Airbus) means the hydraulic pressure is removed from the system because the gear is held in place mechanically.

Airbus A300, Boeing 737 until the NG series, Boeing 747 until the -400 series) have landing gear levers with three positions: UP, OFF and DOWN.