Do You Carry a Spare Tire and Tube All the Time?

Do you carry a spare tire and/or tube when you fly?

  • Spare tire

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Spare tube

    Votes: 18 15.5%

  • Spare tire and tube

    Votes: 3 2.6%

  • Nope

    Votes: 95 81.9%
  • Total voters
    116
AKBill said:
I think most of the flats occur due to a compromised tube. Carrying a spare tube is a good idea, especially on cross country flights.
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Especially since a tube is not bulky or expensive.
 
FastEddieB said:
I’ll say it: that’s not nearly often enough.

It’s so easy and quick to do, at least on motorcycles and cars/trucks. What’s stopping you from doing it more often?
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On the bikes and the truck,we used to check them quite often and found they were not losing air but as I learned recently, the plane is different.
 
Matthew Rogers said:
If you can find anyone with a car, they all have a jack inside their trunk (or at least they used to before modern cars stopped being sold with spare tires).
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You can also buy a jack for 20 bucks at any Walmart, and I doubt there is a square foot of the country more than 15 minutes from a Walmart these days. Open 24/7.
 
Not everyone flies a fixed fear Cessna. I’d like to see you change a main on a Mooney with a jack from Walmart.
 
I am working on putting together an emergency toolkit. I want to at least carry a tube.
 
Salty said:
Not everyone flies a fixed fear Cessna. I’d like to see you change a main on a Mooney with a jack from Walmart.
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Then pay for an AP to fly out and help you. Or just keep complaining. Or fly around with your special Mooney Jack since you always have the fastest, most efficient plane.
 
Matthew Rogers said:
Then pay for an AP to fly out and help you. Or just keep complaining. Or fly around with your special Mooney Jack since you always have the fastest, most efficient plane.
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Woah. I didn’t complain about anything.
 
Salty said:
Woah. I didn’t complain about anything.
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The challenge “I’d like to see you…” was not a complaint, I admit. So how about using your brain and coming up with a novel way to use a regular car scissor Jack and some other items to propose a way to change the tire on a Mooney? Your ideas may help someone in the future to be able to get out of a jam.
 
Matthew Rogers said:
The challenge “I’d like to see you…” was not a complaint, I admit. So how about using your brain and coming up with a novel way to use a regular car scissor Jack and some other items to propose a way to change the tire on a Mooney? Your ideas may help someone in the future to be able to get out of a jam.
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Not me. I’m going to find a proper jack. I’ve helped repair a wing that got punctured when falling off an unstable jack. It ain’t worth it.
 
There is no end to the amount of tools and parts you might need when a failure occurs. Unfortunately, there are a lot of airports without FBO's and nothing nearby.

While they were working on my plane, the mechanic was regaling me with stories of having to drive / fly out to remote airports to fix stranded planes. Yeah, it cost the owner a bundle, but you can get help from nearby airports with services.

I know this thread was about spare tires, but there are a lot of things that can go wrong with an aircraft. How much stuff you gonna carry? I carry oil and a couple of hand tools but anything else and I am calling someone. My 2¢
 
Joe_B1 said:
I know this thread was about spare tires, but there are a lot of things that can go wrong with an aircraft. How much stuff you gonna carry?
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Truth! I have looked at how many things to carry, or not, and depending on the mission and the terrain I can change and adapt. My small sport plane has a fair payload for what it is but carrying around another 50 lbs. of tools and parts is tough to do if I'm taking a passenger, plenty of fuel, and some luggage.
 
Daleandee said:
Truth! I have looked at how many things to carry, or not, and depending on the mission and the terrain I can change and adapt. My small sport plane has a fair payload for what it is but carrying around another 50 lbs. of tools and parts is tough to do if I'm taking a passenger, plenty of fuel, and some luggage.
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Usually if we take the scooters, dog and some baggage we are very nearly at gross T.O. weight so all I carry for contingencies are some oil, first aid kit and some very modest hand tools. Oh and a cell phone to call a mechanic if something breaks.
 
NordicDave said:
Tires should be replaced when the first sign of cracking, or low tread, or age as tires dry out. Pretty important preventive maintenance. A lot of pilots wait too long to replace fading batteries and old tires.

If a tire is lost due to hard landing, a best practices is to have the aircraft properly inspected for gear and gear attach point fatigue. It's pretty rare FOD on the runway causes a good tire to be lost.
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If GA AC were inspected after every hard landing there wouldn't be a free A&P in the USA.

maint manuals may specify a gear inspection time, but if its a rental then its getting a 100hr.

What %of pilot owners have ever read thr service manual for recommend inspections?
 
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