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frank.goodnight(at)att.ne
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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:12 am Post subject: Flat tire {none event?}

A couple of  weeks ago I was chugging along about an hour from the  

airport and about 500 ft.

feeling really pleased with myself , thinking - what a great day. then  

I happened to look at

my left tire. It looked strange, in the firestar I can touch the tires  

if I relax the sholder straps a

little.when i felt of it -PANIC- low time pilot, andnot much of it in  

a kolb. WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN? An hour and a half latter when I HAD to  

land , I did the very best full stall , tail wheel

first landing that I was capable of, there was NO difference from a  

normal landing untill I

slowed to just above walking speed. Then the A/C just stopped moveing  

no matter how

much power. I had to get out and pull it off the runway by hand. Can  

some of you older pilots

tell me if this is normal , or was I just lucky? What is the best way  

to land a kolb with a flat?



Frank Goodnight

firestar 2

75 hrs

Brownsville TX.

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John Hauck

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 4639
Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:23 am Post subject: Flat tire {none event?}

Can

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		   some of you older pilots

 tell me if this is normal , or was I just lucky? What is the best way  to 

 land a kolb with a flat?



 Frank Goodnight


	




Jim Swann is a lot older than me, and a FS pilot.  



Never tried to land with a flat tire.



I think you did it one satisfactory way.  You made it down and did not bend 

the airplane.



I have landed my Ultrastar with one main gear involuntarily retracted.  Got 

a wing tip, but that is the nature of the US.  Landed my buddy's US after a 

3/16 bolt sheared on one end of the main gear braces.  Got his wing tip too. 

;-(



john h

mkIII

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Dana

Joined: 13 Dec 2007
Posts: 1047
Location: Connecticut, USA

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:16 am Post subject: Flat tire {none event?}

At 09:01 AM 6/12/2009, frank.goodnight wrote:

 	  Quote: 	
		  ...the A/C just stopped moveing

no matter how

much power. I had to get out and pull it off the runway by hand. Can

some of you older pilots

tell me if this is normal , or was I just lucky? What is the best way

to land a kolb with a flat?


	


I don't know if my tire was flat the other day when I landed; I realized it 

was flat when it took a LOT of power to taxi after landing!



That was the call to put a tube in the tire; I had been procrastinating.



-Dana

--

  The most useful tool for dealing with management types is, of course, an 

automatic weapon.

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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:22 pm Post subject: Flat tire {none event?}

At 09:01 AM 6/12/2009, you wrote:



  	  Quote: 	
		  slowed to just above walking speed. Then the A/C just stopped moveing  

 no matter how

 much power. I had to get out and pull it off the runway by hand. Can  

 some of you older pilots

 tell me if this is normal , or was I just lucky? What is the best way  

 to land a kolb with a flat?



 Frank Goodnight 	




 I've landed with flats before. Not nearly as bad as you might think, like having the brakes

 on is all.

 Taking off with a flat is a lot harder to do, but you can do it if

 you have to, at least in a Firestar. If you've got nothing else, try stuffing your shirt or 

 something in the flat tire to get off the ground. Of course if you have a choice,

 don't do it.



 Landing without a tail wheel spring is not something you want to do. It gets real

 squirrely as soon as the tail wheel touches down.



 



 



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