How to change an AIRPLANE TIRE in 15 MINUTES! Explained by CAPTAIN JOE

Using the old tire pressure for the pneumatic/hydraulic jack is so elegant and clever. Thanks for this awesome video

hi Captain Joe! i’m a 16 year old girl from Australia and I’ve been watching your videos since i was 11! I just earned my glider license today and i’ll be starting my ppl training in 3 weeks!! I just wanted to say thank you so much! your videos have kept me motivated in my dream of becoming an airline pilot and have helped me tremendously, I will be forever grateful 🥰

It is super cool that your company lets you film behind the scenes like this! Thank you so much!

I was a CIT fueler at LAS Nevada. The aircraft maintenance company we had was CAS. Like every other department on the ground, we had a turn-time for the flight which was typically around an hour or so, unless it was scheduled to depart later. I've witnessed plenty of tire changes, and always had to communicate with them before I started fueling the AC.

Awesome video, as always. As for the nitrogen in the tires, Ken over at his Aero Savvy blog also discussed that once before and it was really cool to learn!

this video is so interesting! :D really happy to see you making videos around Cargolux's stuff!

Captain Joe, this was awesome!! In the early 1970's it took ages to change the VARIG B-727 tires in the middle of nowhere here in Brazil, especially during the tropical rainy season, with all the heat, bugs, and mud. It looks like an effortless task nowadays as shown in the video. Thanks for sharing.

Fantastic videos as always Captain. Its so great that you give exposure to people the general public don't really think about - the maintenance crews. Its is these heroes that look after these machines and ensure all of us are safe way up there and when we touch down. Shout out to the maintenance crews all over the world!

Thanks! My 747 had a flat tire and of course it happened in the middle of nowhere. Your tutorial was very clear and helped a lot. I was back on the road in a matter of minutes!

As an airline pilot I’ve never watched an actual tire change. That was incredibly informative. Love the maintenance type videos! Well done.

Its so happy to see that this channel has got you so much in your career. From just a hobby to now having your employer asking you to make videos about your dream aircraft is so so great to see.

One of the primary ways to inspect the brake for wear is the rod sticking out on the aft lower portion of the brake caliper you showed. You'll notice it is sticking quite far beyond the limit indicating eyelet/support that is a few inches from the caliper which means that's a fairly new brake. Thanks for the video, it's always nice to see the maintainers getting a small shoutout.

Thank you for this cool video.👍 As a aircraft maintenance engineer, I’m glad to see Captain Joe share our everyday things! All the best✈️

Thank you so much!! My 747 just got a flat tire and I had to fly to the side of the sky-street. I am just super happy that I found your Tutorial.

This video is so educational but entertaining. It's good to know that you are doing what you are doing for people like us who doesn't get a chance to come in contact with the tarmac sometimes depending on where we have landed or the type of plane we are getting on.

Never would have thought it would be that easy. We take so much for granted. Thank you.

I was a crew chief on heavies in the USAF and this video brought back memories. It's a pretty simple process but it can be dangerous, and like pretty much anything on an aircraft, you don't want to screw it up. You're dealing with a lot of weight and very high air pressure and some really ugly things can happen. These guys make it look easy, but there is an art to rolling those MLG tires on and off the trailer or in and out of the racks in the shop without losing control of them and/or dropping them. Aside from the damage and/or injury a rolling, out of control MLG wheel-tire assembly can cause, dropping one of those awkward, nearly 600 pound monsters requires at least three men men to dead lift it back to upright again. Dropping one will not exactly make you the most popular guy on the crew that day and the others will not let you soon forget it. I don't know about on a 747, but on the heavy jets I'm familiar with you don't want to forget to insure the brakes are set prior to pulling the wheel/tire off. If they're not set or can't be set due to no available power or hydraulic pressure, you'll "drop" the brake, and those multi-segmented rotors will have to be "jigged" and THEN the brakes set prior to installing the new wheel/tire. Unintentionally dropping a brake is another thing that will make you an extremely unpopular individual on the crew that day.

Cool!  Thank You Joe for this interesting video. I remember one occasion a long time ago. I was doing my "military" (civil-) service in Sweden as a civilian airport firefighter. We used to sitt and watch videos before going to bed at our station, just to wait for the last plane landing. This night we heard a loud bang and the windows where shaking ... all of us rushed up and prepared for an emergency. One of us looked out the window and saw nothing unusual ... the MD80 was slowing down and started taxying to the terminal as usual(?) So we did not go to our truck. But wondered what caused the bang. Then the telephone called ... it was from the tower, and they asked us to go out and sweep up all the rubber from the runway ... The airport was not so big so we had jobbs that is maybe not normal for firefighters ... This was one of them. The other was to check the friction of the runway in winter during weekends (when the ordinary guys did not work) ... another job was to control the lights in the morning and sometimes check visibility, when the airport was foggy ... :) I loved that time and miss it. There was also a flying museum at the airport with one old P51 Mustang ... :) Sorry for a long comment ... Now you have read a chapter of my memoirs ;)

I never thought I'd find changing a tire interesting...thanks Captain Joe, that was very interesting! Unreal how huge & heavy those tires are. Everyone's part in keeping those planes flying is so important.

Love these recent videos about the technical side of aviation, cheers to all the maintenance engineers and technicians out there, the hidden heroes!