My name is Jack Haun.
I'm the Director of Aircraft Maintenance for
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona
Beach, FL.
Today we have 72 airplanes which are a mix
of Cessna 172s, Piper Arrows, and Diamond
DA-42 L360 as well as Diamond DA-42 Austro
VI.
We average about 100 hours per airplane per
month.
We put about 3.35 landings, thats calculated
out statistically per hour we fly.
If you're in a flight school, we don't do
the prettiest landings.
We're training students to fly.
We're training them to land.
We've been using Goodyear tires for, pretty
much since I came here and we opened this
business 19 years ago and we've used nothing
but Goodyear.
When you're in a flight training environment,
whats my number one thing?
Safety.
Safety is paramount.
I hear of a lot of schools having skid throughs,
blow outs, they lose control of the airplane.
They damage the airplane.
They run the risk of hurting someone.
You can go through the stack of tires I have
in the corner, there's probably 100 of them
there.
You wont find one that was a blow out or a
skid through.
With the sidewall strength of these tires
we dont see the breakdown that we've seen
with other tires.
We're getting almost twice the life out of
these tires that we would over competitive
tires.
It's, in my opinion, the safest tire out there
for General Aviation, especially in the flight
training environment.
