skydriller wrote:.. or is it because it is usually LH wings that get crunched/fail inspection and so they are stocked up...", oh, and of course "why would that be"...
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ISTR from my first airline job (teenager, school holidays, hangar dogsbody, '60s), in a pre-CRM era where WW2 generation Captains hogged the landings and despised young copilots with new CPLs, talking to a WW2 maintenance gaffer. He told me that LH tyres, and ultimately LH u/c legs, were worn out and sometimes failed first because the Captain in LH seat had LH on stick/yoke, RH on engine lever(s), and always unconsciously pulled slightly down (ie, on LH aileron) as well as back (on elevator) in the flare, so LH wheels hit the runway first
I suppose same might be true of the LH wing spars in a GA type.
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