Originally Posted by
Dogma
Its is funny the forth right opinion on here, wrong as most of it is. Its got nothing to do with the nose gear. The issue affects all 'heavy' jets, the higher the weight the higher the tyre stress and resultant temperatures. Ideally, in high ambient temps, high gross weight, particularly on less than 1 hour turns; you should taxi at 15kts maximum and 10kts for turns. Save your tyres as you never know when they might let you down
Is an A320 a ‘heavy’ jet then?...