Skylane 182/RG Turbo Skylane/RG
Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 30; Flight Crew Total 325; Flight Crew Type 36
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Ground Excursion Runway
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft; Procedure
Following an uneventful [touchdown] just past 1;000 FT markers on Runway 24; under light winds; 20 degrees of flaps and an approach speed of 75 KTS I started to apply light brakes. But then I started to feel a vibration coming through the pedals; which got moderately worse and the airplane started to deviate from center line to left. Upon applying more right pedal to correct left drift and slight braking I looked out the window and [saw that the] left main [tire] was blown. I applied slight right aileron to try to keep weight off the left main [and; as the aircraft slowed down] applied full right rudder and more braking on right main; to maintain best directional control but was unable to stop aircraft before rolling off on to runway skirt. The airplane stopped off runway by about six feet. There was no damage done to left main wheel rim; hub [or other part of the] aircraft.I do not feel like there was anything else that could have been done to correct the situation any better than was done. Contributing factors that could of led up to the event were; upon preflight of plane I noticed that tire tread on both mains was very thin; less than 1/16th of an inch. Upon checking the tire after it was removed it was found to be less than that; it was just about to show cord lines in [tread]. I advised that both mains be replaced to lessen the chance of a recurrence. Both mains were; in fact; replaced.
A C182RG pilot suffered a modest runway excursion on landing when the left main gear tire failed. There was no other damage to the aircraft.