Agreed on the patchy runway. When I was a new PP, I was
flying out of SPI in a Beech Musketeer. Runway 22 was icy
and there was no wind. It was a wide runway, 7,000 feet
long used by the ANG F84F.

On landing, after about 500 feet of roll, the airplane yawed
about 40° to the left. I gave it full right rudder and full
power and it straightened out. I was not using any brakes
on the landing, just using the rudder for directional
control and letting distance slow the airplane.

When I got to the ramp and did a post-flight inspection I
found a big flat spot on the left tire [which was brand
new]. It had gone through 4 or 5 plies of the 6 ply tire.

What happened wasn't crosswind, it was a brake malfunction
that resulted in an AD note for the parking brake valve
vibration into the applied position while in-flight.

On the icy runway, the sliding locked wheel just slide and
the unlocked wheel was probably rolling. But when it hit a
dry spot the plane yawed, the tire almost blew and an AD was
born.



"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
news | Jay Honeck wrote:
| And people wonder why I moved to the Desert SW.
| Winds today, 20G40.
|
|
| Icy runways or taxiways are definitely not fun. Flyling
on icy runways
| makes one truly appreciate the stoutness of fixed
landing gear.
|
| When you can't do a run-up without sliding, you know
it's gonna be a
| fun flight...
|
| I don't mind icy runways. The ones I don't like are ones
that are part
| ice and part asphalt. If they are all ice or hard packed
snow, you can
| make the takeoff and landing roll in a crab and not stress
the gear much
| at all. It is only if you had a bare patch that things
can get ugly. I
| used to fly a lot on snow covered runways in fairly strong
winds and it
| was a piece of cake as long as the runway was ALL snow or
ice.
|
|
| Matt