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On Jan 27, 5:28*am, Oliver Arend wrote:
I know the answer is "it depends", but let's say you are in a regular
light airplane (C152, C172 ...) with "real" aircraft tires and you do
normal landings without excessive load, speed or crosswind. It will
still depend on the surface of the runway, but generally, is the
number more on the order of 10s of landings (change rather often),
100s of landings (maybe get through one busy flying season with one
set) or 1000s of landings (last forever until aging kicks in)?

Oliver


It's not the landings that kill tires. It's the braking forces. Pilots
who land long and/or fast will use a lot of brake to try to stop the
airplane, and braking scrubs rubber off real quick even if the tire
isn't "skidding."

Dan

Ummmmm.... ...where did you learn this?

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