What do you use for lightweight travel chocks? I don't have to use them very often but the cheap walmart ones I have tend to walk out when the wind rocks the wings. They are the old yellow plastic ones. I have a Cessna 180 with bushwheels.
Thanks for the help.

Yellow plastic ones from camping world. I put a rope on them so I can pull them once I have prop turning and am ready to roll.
DENNY

I carry 4 6-inch-long pieces of 2X2 inch aluminum angle, never had a problem with it walking out from the tires. Don't know what it would cost to buy them, I got the metal from the scrap metal bin at work.

My plane came with a set of PVC pipe assemblies in a U shape that just fit around the tire as it sits on the ground. They work pretty well as chocks and don’t move around.

Thanks for the responses!

These look good...go for the large size.

https://www.chiefaircraft.com/ft-c10.html

I keep getting ads for these rope chocks. My mechanic uses a rope to chock the wheel of his trailer that he pulls around the airport as a rolling toolbox carrier. (His is just an old rope though... he didn't pay the big bucks!)

I've never tried them and don't think I will pay $40 to find out how well they work.... but if I had an old chunk of rope lying around I might try it.

https://ropechocks.com/

Red is the fastest color:

https://www.amazon.com/Torin-Steel-Safety-Wheel-Chock/dp/B002E1AYW2/ref=asc_df_B002E1AYW2/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312061979255&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2235449175766867072&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9028820&hvtargid=pla-448681534686&psc=1

Got a set of hollow long triangle tube ones, one side is slightly smaller than the other so they fit 80% into each other, made out of some rubber fiber reinforced stuff, work well, weigh nothing, don’t scratch anything in the interior

Only draw back is they are a little short and light, however I’ve used them on a PC12 without issue, maybe not the best if you have tundras and are parked on a crazy slope


https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/ ... chocks.php

We have a set of the Airgizmos chocks NineThreeKilo mentiond and they work well for the 172.

I carry one set of low profile chocks like these https://www.sportys.com/low-profile-rubber-wheel-chocks.html. I use them if there's not much wind and I'll be close to the airplane. Turn the tailwheel 90 degrees to the fuselage and chock it. In theory, the airplane can't weathervane because of the chocks and it can't roll forward or aft because the tailwheel is 90 degrees to the fuselage.

But in general I'm not a fan of chocks. I carry tie down ropes and a tie down kit and always tie my airplane down if I'll be away from or out of sight of it for more than a few minutes.

It amazes me how some people will spend six figures on an airplane and won't spent six minutes or 60 bucks to tie it down properly.

I have a set of the Airgizmos as well. Perfect for the Champ. Some bigger rubber ones in the Cessna I fly once in a while, that probably weigh a couple of pounds. As Slowmover stated, tiedowns anytime it’s breezy or parked more than a few minutes.

Pete

https://www.northerntool.com/products/i ... 7-nt-29378

Works well with my 8.50x10s. Not sure about use with big tires.

I carry my airplane tools in a Bucket Boss 13 tool bag. Pretty much the same dimensions as a bus/ truck wheel chock. I wouldn't leave it unattended on an airport ramp necessarily, but have used it many times in the backcountry, with a rock or a log on the opposing side of 29" ABW.

The rope loop design appeals to me- if I had smaller tires.

-DP

Bumping this rather than creating new, has anyone changed their thoughts over the last year? I have a set of 4" angle aluminum chocks tied together with a rope, I'm itching to try to the rope chocks as a simpler and lighter solution but I'm not sure if they function as well?

The lightest and most easily packed set of chocks can be made from scrap street sign aluminum. I obtained a scrap sign from the town and bent several sets in the brake over the years. Have to go across the grain and go easy while bending or they will crack. Can make them as large as you like. As for rope chocks, they are definately not lighter and take up more volume. They do work better than wood/poly chocks on snow and ice. The standard chocks used by the USAF on the F-16 and A-10 at Eielson AFB during my time there was a chunk of hawser in the 4-5" thick range. The crew chiefs slung them over their shoulders and whipped them around the tires once parked. Used year round and once again, very good on ice and snow.

TR

I use these: https://www.lowes.com/pd/bROK-Wheel-Cho ... lsrc=aw.ds

Same thing is available in the RV section of Walmarts. They nest nicely, and are super light. My 8.50 x 10 tires are kinda big and will roll over those teensy chocks in a wind. Not these.

On one pair, I filled them with spray foam. Added about two ounces each, but these are REALLY tough now.

Cheap and easy.

MTV

https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/pspages/ASAwheelChocks.php

I use these. They are large enough for bushwheels to not creep over. The rope makes them easy to keep together. Light. Cheap.

mtv wrote:On one pair, I filled them with spray foam. Added about two ounces each, but these are REALLY tough now.

Was that for buoyancy so you could use them to chock floats?
Sorry, I'll see myself out...
Maybe(probably) I'm the dumbest guy in the room but I don't travel with chocks - can't say I've ever missed having a set? I always have ropes and tie down stakes and use those often. The lightest gear you can have is the gear you don't have.

4 x 4 cut in two on the diagonal. Eye bolt in each one and tie two together to make one side. Super cheap and weigh almost nothing. I've had the ones I'm using for probably 30 years now.

Wayne