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How many landings on your tires?

 
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:37 am    Post subject: How many landings on your tires? Reply with quote

I've noticed over almost 4000 hours that we have to change our tires about every 300 hours.

I write down how many landings we make in our logbook, but I've never taken the time to total them between tire changes.

But on the assumption that we fly an average flight of 1 hour, that's only 300 landings.

Seems awful quick to be going thru tires. (Have have a long runway here and I don't use brakes much.)

Wondering what kind of life others are getting?

(These are Desser retreads.)

Ours is a Glasair II FT, with extended wing tips, no slotted flaps. We "come of the fence" at 70 KIAS.

Thanks.

Mike Palmer <><


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PostPosted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 6:38 am    Post subject: How many landings on your tires? Reply with quote

I use Goodyear flightmate II and wear out the left one about every 150 hours. Then discard the worn one rotate the right to the left and put a new one on the right side. The wheels have good alignment but there is about 1/32 or 1/16 rotational play at the oleo so some minor misalign does happen under load. I have always thought that the torque of T/O requiring big R rudder input is responsible for most of the left tire wear.

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