21'' Tundra Tires on a Pipistrel Virus SW!

Installed these 21'' Aero Classic tundra tires on my Pipistrel Virus SW aircraft
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[@AwDaleYeah]

Such a sick plane. Been loitering around the pipistrel booth here at Oshkosh drooling over a SWis that has tundra tires! Nice rig man!

[@phillijp]

I'd love to see a video explaining the total costs of owning this plane including insurance, maintenance, hanger fees, etc.

[@flyingscotsman5032]

Great to see you back!

[@markw6866]

The look on that child's face while flying is priceless!

[@BMcGhee-t5v]

From 8:05 on - Darryl gets the Best DAD Ever Award. Well done Darryl.

[@utuberagain18]

Cool tires and thanks for the info about your initial experience with them. Also, the ground photography port at the 6:12 mark looks like you have an affordable platform for training with a Norden bombsight from WW II. Although I'm certain it works best for your aerial surveillance work.

[@onthemoney7237]

Did you notice much more drag in the air ? they look good 👍

[@waynelakey6573]

Darryl you are growing t(e family, congrats to you and your wife!

[@DirkHav]

Can you land without the airbrakes, on a 1300 feet runway ?

[@DarrylZubot]

That should be fine yes, with headwind definitely should be okay.

[@SydneyEV]

what was the impact on cruise speeds and fuel burn?

[@DarrylZubot]

About 5-7 knots

[@przemo1000x]

Nice video, now I know how to make plywood box correctly ;) But coming back to airplanes, how do you find a tailwheel Virus as all-rounder ? How does it handle crosswind landings, is the tail boom robust enough for harder three point touchdowns ? I'm asking as I like this plane but have seen a few bent nose legs and damaged props of standard version in our soft field conditions.

[@flexairz]

DC ONE-X great choice of headset! I fly with them too, more than happy with it.

[@DarrylZubot]

Same here love the headset. And man do I love these new tires.

[@s51ta]

Great videos... what are you using to pre-heat the engine in winter times? Cheers,

[@DanFrederiksen]

Cute kids :) do the wheels cripple the cruise speed?

[@NimchenkoIvan]

Hello Darryl Thanks for video and link Did you have a chance to measure cruise speed with new tyres? How much slower does it fly?

[@DarrylZubot]

No problem. It was indicating 7knots slower cruise with these tires

[@DeanCully]

​@@DarrylZubot I have these very same tires on my 1947 Luscombe 8E (~100HP, modified C85) and it was surprisingly little affected vs the standard 6.00x6 set. But a Virus-SW is a much sleeker and faster and thus a longer-range airplane with a much wider cruise speed widow; I know, especially, because I flew one for the first time today in anticipation of one day owning one... tailwheel preferred, but I may have to settle for a tricycle V-SW initially. At what speed or GPH setting did you have the 7 knot penalty? I would expect it to be a higher penalty at higher speeds. The tricycle (fully faired wheels) version I flew today (a -100) did 108 KIAS, 125 KTAS at 5500 MSL at 3.5 GPH. Long range and endurance in Alaska is a major consideration for me; having those tires on a TW version would be a real factor for me, but not sure just how positively without knowing the specific negatives.

[@DarrylZubot]

@@DeanCully You can buy this aircraft now with 180l or 300l tanks. Basically removing any thoughts of endurance. In Alaska I would buy the virus sw tailwheel 914 turbo engine with 180l tanks. That would be amazing setup. I lose about 7 knots cruise at 1000ft agl with big tires on this plane.

[@DeanCully]

@@DarrylZubot Your suggestion is my fantasy. Oh, to have 14-22 hours of reasonably high-speed endurance along with all the other PVSW aerial photography advantages. I'd love to find a used one for a reasonably discounted (vs. new) price. I wouldn't mind finding it in Europe and flying it back.

[@WoutervanTiel]

That really cracked me up how you put those tires on! You are rocking as a dad, handyman, mechanic, aerial survey photographer, & youtuber! Wow, impressive. Do you think the 8.5s would also go on the Sinus? How much less glide do you think it would have? I am looking to have two sets one for bush / winter flying and the smaller wheels with pants for gliding and summer.

[@DarrylZubot]

That's good question, tires should work if they are the 6'' rims, but you'd have to just try them to see what glide would be.

[@MariaOrLex]

great video

[@Leonardj3rd]

Awesome Darryl! Glad to see you like the tires. My SW 100iS has arrived and it came with a set of Tundra Tires. I'm interested to know how long they last landing on pavement. I'm still waiting for the FAA to certify it. 17" is a good amount of prop clearance. I'm in the US so I have to fix the prop pitch for LSA since I'm using it for my flight school. Another question for you...how do you mount your tail camera to the horizontal stabilizer and which one do you use? I hope to start doing some nice videos as well.

[@DarrylZubot]

Awesome congrats! Make sure your tires are not Turf Glide, this is what pipistrel sold me originally, they are golf cart tires, not designed for aircraft weight, speed etc. I think Pipistrel stopped selling these tires so you should be good. I just use stick on GoPro curved mount on top of the horizontal stabilizer, I've never had a problem with those mounts falling off/losing GoPro.

[@waynelakey6573]

How much difference will it cause in airspeed ?

[@mikedekock4437]

Hi, Darryl. Which tyres and rims were you running before?

[@ralphhubbell]

Does that small addition to the planes clearance affect your "sight picture" when landing ?

[@Arne279]

Nice upgrade.....

[@georgearmerding]

there's no way that kid doesn't get a pilots license

[@DraGon-cg6ge]

Nice job bro! 👍

[@hugoburns6379]

Nice video. Are you running these tires tubeless with the beringer wheels?

[@DarrylZubot]

Yep these are tubeless

[@grzechuk6776]

Hello, Darryl. Great to see you back. I've send you PM on facebook.

[@mikegmdw1]

Surely Tundra tyres are for operating off snow covered grass strips not huge tarmac runways? Let's see a snow demo please....

[@terryjordan7276]

Why I a Canadian using inches? Is that normal?

[@DarrylZubot]

I thank the US every time I go into a hardware store and can’t find single metric rulers or tape measures! I’d love to use metric always but Canada is far from using metric. All building/measuring tools is 90% imperial

[@terryjordan7276]

@@DarrylZubot I'm taking flight lessons now. Tomorrow I'll be in a cirrus. If you had to sell your plane and buy another tomorrow what would you choose? I like your plane and 170mph is nice. I grew up in mooneys but for some reason they don't interest me plus I like a parachute. Thanks for your time.

[@markhathaway9456]

excellent video editing. too bad about tht so....

[@MrPetrvershinin]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@DraGon-cg6ge]

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