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Old 25th Jan 2010, 08:47
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For most modern a/cs, the brakes will be automatically applied once the gear up lever is selected to stop the wheels from spinning, As the nose wheels don't have brakes, the scrubber at the roof of l/g bay takes care of that.

As for the tyre pressures, no such thing. But there is a device to release all pressure if the wheel is too hot.

And for the landing gear pins, they are put on all a/c with a long ground time( nightstop), for maintenance reasons( wheel change) or in a freighter if an unexpectedly heavy load is expected. For the B737, it is put on in the NLG even during a pushback as a precaution. Most a/cs nose gear including a B747 will retract on ground if the nose gear lever is put in the up position. It has happened a couple of times.
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