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[KenG]

DanSteph wrote:
Now try to stay on landing strip with one tire blown
Dan

Actually I have for real. A single tire on a boggy (right outer on the King Air) and besides the loud bang when it happened and trying to
figure out what we hit; it was a non-event. It was only during the walk around that we realized the extent of what happened as the rubber
was fairly well shredded on that side. I don't know if every tandem gear airplane would react in the same way, but a blown tire on a King
Air was nothing to write home about.

We never did figure out why that tire blew, ground tried to blame it on us for breaking to hard, but that is generally not the case as when
you do there are tell tail flat spots on the tires that didn't blow, or you blow multiple tires at once. I assume that we must have run over a
piece of FOD on the runway.

Something that did cause one of our airplanes to run off the runway at Nogales, AZ was a failure of one of the propellers to reverse properly causing dissymmetry of thrust on the ground. Pulled one of our BE30s right off the runway in a few seconds according to the pilots it happened to. Good news is we did not have any passengers on board at the time. Caused me to adjust my technique for short field operations with maximum reverse to pause in the ground fine position before going into the full reverse.



Post Edited ( 10-26-08 08:06 )