5 punctures in 2 years, any ideas?
I'm a member of a syndicate that operates a PA38 out of Kemble, in the last 2 years we have had 5 punctures! In decades of flying (20 in this syndicate alone) I’d never encountered a flat tyre/blow out until September 2017, and now we have had 5 in 2 years: 3 starboard side and 2 port. It is beginning to be hard, though, to put this down to bad luck.
There doesn't appear to be any pattern to the flat /blow outs, the tyres themselves don't have any flat spots, which would indicate a landing with the brakes applied. The first two flats showed an absence of chalk dust, nothing else. Only one had a large pin hole in the side wall of the inner tube, no evidence of what made it. The final two were found completely flat.
Any ideas?