Teacherjh wrote:


I was taught to tap the brakes to stop the wheels from spinning before tucking
them away. (spinning tires bulge out a bit, or so I was told) I confess I've
never actually looked down (sometimes I fly a cutlass) to see how long it takes
them to stop on their own.

At the rate it takes the Cessna single mains to retract, it's probably
stopped :-)

I'm not sure how tapping the brakes dislodges any snow. There's very little
shoe travel.

Correct, if you've got disks there's not much clearance there to begin
with. For other forms of brakes, it's not even going to do anything.

Of course all this stuff neglects the nose gear.