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, john smith wrote: In article , Ron Garret wrote: The Cirrus has a free castering nosewheel, but the C182RG is the one everyone (including me) had a hard time landing, the one whose tires kept getting bald spots, and the one whose prop get bent. Bald spots on landing are usually the result of having ones toes on the brakes instead of the rudder pedals. This comes from pushing the rudder pedals by flexing the foot so that the ball pushed against the toe brakes instead of sliding the heels for and aft to control direction of the ground roll by pushing the lower rudder pedal portion. That was one theory. Trick is, all the same pilots were flying all the planes in the fleet and only the 182 was getting bald spots. Also, after landing, the brakes would be partially engaged for a while until they cooled down (very annoying as it made it next to impossible to move the plane back into its parking space). There was no one in the cockpit so this after-landing lockup was manifestly not caused by someone applying the brakes inadvertently. We had long arguments about this for many years. The matter had still not been resolved when I left the club. rg |
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