wrxpilot
The proud, the few
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One of the 172s I rent has a tendency to shimmy on T/O and landing rollout. It's much more pronounced on T/O, but I can get it to settle out by adding back pressure until I hit a high enough a/s to get rotation (or adding back pressure on rollout until I've slowed past the "critical" shimmy speed). Nonetheless, it is annoying. I've squawked this on the maintenance sheet before, but it always seems to re-appear on this a/c. What is the typical cause of nosewheel shimmy? Is it ever dangerous? Are there any long term effects such as early fatigue on nose gear components?