Tire question

In article yoLMd.48293$EG1.25376@attbi_s53,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:


Note: When we park the plane at our hangar, we must pivot the plane sharply
on its LEFT tire, by locking that brake and turning as sharply as possible,
to position it for pushing back -- yet it was the RIGHT tire that
prematurely (IMHO) wore out.

Are you right handed? Perhaps you're putting a little more pressure on
the right brake on rollout.

Do you make mostly right turns when taxiing?

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html

Do you make mostly right turns when taxiing?

After we've landed, they're almost all right turns to get back to my hangar.

Of course, before we depart, (on the way out to the runway) they're all left
turns!

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article O3YMd.20213$C24.19347@attbi_s52,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Do you make mostly right turns when taxiing?

After we've landed, they're almost all right turns to get back to my hangar.

Of course, before we depart, (on the way out to the runway) they're all left
turns!

;-)

Thinking about it you're probably not going to flatspot a tire taxiing,
unless you're a real aggressive taxier. G

I'd bet a little inadvertant skid due to strong right leg.

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html

Thinking about it you're probably not going to flatspot a tire taxiing,
unless you're a real aggressive taxier. G

I'd bet a little inadvertant skid due to strong right leg.

Personally, as with anything that goes wrong with the airplane, I'm taking
the coward's way out...

....and blaming Mary.

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:


Personally, as with anything that goes wrong with the airplane, I'm taking
the coward's way out...

...and blaming Mary.

:-)

But Mary and the mechanic know who's really responsible :-)

Margy and our mechanic blame me for anythign that breaks. And I haven't
broken any rudder pedals since I bought 4 spares at the aeromart at Oskosh
a decade ago.

Ron Natalie wrote in
m:

Margy and our mechanic blame me for anythign that breaks. And I
haven't broken any rudder pedals since I bought 4 spares at the
aeromart at Oskosh a decade ago.

Sign at the BBQ place I eat:

"I have a very responsible job around here."

"No matter what goes wrong, someone
always claims I was responsible."


Someone questioned earlier if you were always landing on one wheel vs. the
other. Quite possible. At my home airport, probably 90% of the time the
landing is with a quartering left front crosswind. So the landing is
almost ALWAYS left main first. Could be something similar, so "familiar"
that you don't even think about it.

Then again, could be that one wheel just needs alignment. G

jmk

Then again, could be that one wheel just needs alignment. G

You know, I was wondering about that. Can a fixed landing gear be "cocked"
to one side or the other? That would wear a tire out in no time. (Although
it wouldn't explain flat-spotting...)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Dale wrote:

Thinking about it you're probably not going to flatspot a tire taxiing,
unless you're a real aggressive taxier. G

I'd bet a little inadvertant skid due to strong right leg.


I've seen people doing things that could flat spot nose wheels when
taxiing Navions (I suspect you can do it with other planes as well).
The toe brake modification will let you drag the nose tire (you can
turn an arc smaller than the nose gear steering allows).