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Uploaded by on Jun 16, 2009

If you're headed for Oshkosh this summer, you'll need tiedown gear. Aviation Consumer's Jeb Burnside reviews three popular products.

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  • They showed an auger style tiedown ... but never tested it, they only tested the spiral anchor which is NOT an equal comparison. Correct me if I'm wrong someone. I think that would have tested the best out of all of those

  • when i bought my airplane I asked the former owner if he has taken her to Oshkosh or Lakeland, his answer was NO!, you could be caught in a severe weather, hail or a tornado, and there will be no time for you to escape, so I will follow his 5 year old advice and fly commercial againg this year!

    i think he was no fool at all!!

  • I use the EAA , homebuilt design for my a/c. It has 3 , 18 inch pins on each tie down. They take some pounding to get them in the ground but , for example, when I used them at S&F last month, they went through a much more substantial layer that was about 10 inches down! I was not there during the tornado but I could imagine that if your tie downs were not deep enough, they would not hold very well, no matter what type you used....

  • arrrhhh... don't put the stuff on the wing !!!

  • Test rig pulls straight up. I don't know about you, but I sure don't place the tiedowns so the load is straight up, lifting them out of the ground. Much better to have longer lines allowing the stakes to be set up wide adding some horizontal vector.

  • AVweb, your recordings are still very low volume, please fix.

  • There is something to be said for ease of removal not by wind but for teardown. I used cable anchor's last year (Nelson tiedown kit) and spent about two hours cussing trying to unscrew them when I really needed to be in the air. I'm trying something else this year.

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