Tire blowout!!!

Yesterday i was sitting in the office when i recieved a call from Neil one of the instructors here at Zero four, He said he had a burst tire on landing when he landed at port st Johns airfield which is around  an hours flying time away. Upon further disscussion on the matter it was decided that i would fly to Port st Johns with a spare tire, an engineer and a saftey pilot because of the intense wind. We arrived at the airfield and i set up an approach for landing, just before the start of the runway the wind gusted and pushed the plane sideways so i aborted landing and did a go around. On the second try i managed to get the plane alot straighter than before although the plane was still very skew, just before the start of the runway the wind changed direction and was now behind me, it pushed the plane forwards and gained a substantial amount of speed. I put the plane down as fast as I could and tried to slow the plane down before the end of the runway, on the other side of which was a 500m drop off a cliff.

I managerd to slow the plane down in time and we unloaded the spare tire and got the other plane going again, so it was an eventful day had by all but Port st Johns still remains a very tricky and dangerous runway when it comes to windy days.