Tie Down Chock Positions

[WDD]

Today's Trivial Question - where do you stick your chocks?

BONUS: If you made one out of Calcite, would it be a "Chalk Chock"?

 

[MauleSkinner]

I stick ‘em where the Sun don’t shine…the wheels are under the wings.

I made mine out of wood, so they’re actually chock boards.

 

[WDD]

I made mine out of wood, so they’re actually a chock board.

Dang - how did I miss that one. Good job.

 

[frfly172]

Have both plastic and aluminum like both mains.

 

[MauleSkinner]

Oh…don’t forget to include the tailwheel in your poll choices.

 

[Lindberg]

None of the above

 

[Kiddo's Driver]

You need to break this up into high-wing vs low-wing. I bet a lot fewer low-wing people chock a main.

 

[Zeldman]

Low wing, I did the nose gear.

The line folks do the mains...

 

[Terry M - 3CK (Chicago)]

You are asking which wheel(s) you chock after tying the plane down?

Or if you are not tying it down (like running in to grab lunch or between lessons)?

I haven't seen any tied down planes that are also chocked near the Chicago area.

 

[Gilbert Buettner]

On low wing airplanes, I usually chock the nosewheel. On the high wings, I usually chock the left main, expecting it to be more visible to the pilot before getting in the airplane.

 

[midwestpa24]

Today's Trivial Question - where do you stick your chocks?

That kind of sounds like a personal question.

 

[Roller]

Personally I like the big bottom rubber chocks and I can not lie

Both mains

Failing that with only 1 I’ll chock the nose or tailwheel

For my plane I have two turbo prop sized rubber chocks with a rope running through both, I’ll have them forward on the mains for start with the park brake set, after I’ll pull the line, hop in and off to the wild blue

After I land I use my tiedowns on the wings, and put both of those chocks on the tailwheel


This man gets it

 

[wanttaja]

I chock one main, but it's in a hangar so it's just to keep it from rolling too much if the floor decides to slope. If I roll it outside to run, I chock both mains. Never have chocked the tailwheel, but I *have* tied a tiedown rope to it (in my hand-propping days).

My plane is a low-wing, yet it's a taildragger so one doesn't have to stoop to insert the chocks.

Ron Wanttaja

 

[Gary Ward]

I got 3 wood chocks sets that I made. So I use 3 sometimes outside when I am away from the plane. They may not be large enough for larger planes. In the hangar, I use them as stops and don't always chock them in front. Probably should.

 

[Jim K]

I stick ‘em where the Sun don’t shine…the wheels are under the wings.

I made mine out of wood, so they’re actually chock boards.

How much wood would a wood chock chuck if a wood chock could chuck wood?

 

[Jim K]

Nose wheel only for me. If I'm not confident that's good enough, I'm tying down. Chock is to keep her from rolling away, not blowing away.

 

[Dana]

I have a set of two big polyurethane chocks, left over from some Navy project, for hand propping at home. The plane won't climb over those even at full throttle. There's a crack in the pavement in front of my hangar that will hold the plane after the chocks are pulled once the plane is idling smoothly, that's where I start it. A smaller par of nesting aluminum chocks for away from home, though up until now I've used a cockpit releasable rope from the tailwheel spring to any convenient post. Front of the mains only, of course. In the hangar, pieces of 2x6 front and back. They're more to know where to stop than to hold the plane, unless one of my hangar mates decides to open the door during a hurricane.

How much wood would a wood chock chuck if a wood chock could chuck wood?

Everybody knows that it'd chuck as much as a wood chock could if a wood chock could chuck wood!
(we're dating ourselves...)

 

[Lindberg]

What's the purpose of chocks? Knowing that might answer the question of where to put them.

 

[MauleSkinner]

(we're dating ourselves...)

As my mom told me when I was in my 30’s, “at least you’re dating somebody!”

 

[Pinecone]

I voted nose, but that is in my hangar.

Out the world, where ever the line person puts them.

 

[TCABM]

Odd chalks to the right, evens to the left.

 

[GeorgeC]

Ten and two? Or six to midnight. One of those.