is it just me?

Newps wrote:

What exactly are the tires you use made of...Jello? They just don't
fail with the regularity that you are worried about.

I no longer rent from the FBO that maintained the plane I was flying when
the tire failed, so it isn't terribly convenient for me to check to see if
the tires are jello. I expect I'd have noticed this sort of thing during
the preflight, but - given that I don't preflight with a spoon and whipped
cream - perhaps not.

More seriously: I've only had a tire fail once during my 400+ hours of
flying, so perhaps it isn't terribly likely. However, I have been waved
off in the past for other reasons. Perhaps these can all be classified as
"controller missequencing", but - given that a lot of students are flying
around my "home" airport - I'd be surprised if none of the blame falls to
those students.

But this is all beside the point (although interesting). The fact is that
controllers do occasionally have to wave off an aircraft previously cleared
for landing. Someone - not you, BTW - claimed:

In the US, controllers would sequence the arriving aircraft so that a go
around would not be necessary.

I was merely pointing out that this was usually, but not always, the case in
my country which also happens to be called "the US".

- Andrew

Newps wrote:



Andrew Gideon wrote:




In the US on Earth, the controller has to make certain assumptions.

We make thousands of assumptions everyday.

True.

[...]

That happens all the time. There is no such thing as a go around proof
sequence.

I know.

**** happens.

I forgot that reason: animal incursion (and activities {8^) on the runway.

- Andrew