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Old 1st Nov 2016, 07:26
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After a few calculations I find I am getting about 1200 landings per tyre ( using the type of tyre you have chosen ).

As most privately owned aircraft fly about 100 hours a year and probably do 1.5 landings per hour this would give a tyre life of around eight years operating from hard runways and double that on grass making it probable that a lightly used aircraft operating from grass could be sitting on twenty year old tyres.
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