Tire Pressure Monitoring
This thread drifted a little off the subject, so here are some comments to steer it back to electronic tire pressure monitoring. Checking tire pressure before flying is traditionally the way to be sure your tires are correctly inflated. But it only tells you the tire pressure at that particular point in time. I recently flew with a friend who had checked his tire pressure before we taxied, but the tire went flat (fortunately) before takeoff.
The airline industry moved past the concept of "fly-fix-fly" some years ago. Engines can be monitored in great detail, and we can see trends developing that indicate a possible problem before there is a failure. Electronic tire pressure monitoring has been in use on modern transport airplanes for quite awhile, and low tire pressure is now part of EICAS and ECAM alerting systems.
Off road rally racers use tire pressure monitoring to allow them to stop and change a tire before one fails at exactly the wrong time. Their lives depend on it during a race. The technology is available.
RVs have landed with low/flat tires, which usually results in being stranded on the runway and some fiberglass work for the damaged wheel fairing. But there have been cases where the airplane ended up in the weeds. If those pilots had known a tire was getting low, they would likely have changed their landing strategy. Let's raise our game by figuring out how to make the technology work in our aircraft, just like we've done in other areas.
As an additional note: One of the lessons we learned from the flat tire mentioned earlier was that since there are several RVs on our field, we decided to develop a recovery kit with a built-up wheel and tire, and the jacks necessary to get the airplane rolling again in minimum time.