Small Aircraft
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 25; Flight Crew Total 4034; Flight Crew Type 3012
Physiological - Other
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach
Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance; General Maintenance Action
Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors
I was on final approach to APC VOR Approach Runway 06. I had the runway in sight and commenced the visual segment. Smoke generated from [a local fire] obliterated the runway at the last minute. It seemed that the color of the smoke and the runway all looked the same. The problem was slant range not vertical or horizontal range. I pulled up at the last second so as not to strike any objects. I was in a right hand climbing turn. ATC cleared me to land on an intersecting Runway 36L. But I could not bleed off enough speed; and I blew a starboard main tire [after landing]. I was using climb manifold pressure and 2700 RPM when cleared to land and trying to reduce manifold pressure in order to land at 80 knots. No damage occurred to the aircraft structure or components other than the tire.
GA pilot reported an unstabilized approach led to a failed main landing gear tire.