Wayne wrote:
Not just a hawk. 150, 152, 180. I have had several instructors and none
every mentioned that before. How often do you get to have the nose sitting
in the air (such as when the engine is removed) and get to fiddle with it? I
doubt that most instructors know it at all let alone teach it. They don't
even teach whether the rods connect frm the rudder petals to the nosewheel
push, or pull.

I was told that almost all tricycle gerared planes are this way. Except
like the Grumman with their nosewheel (kind of like a castor wheel) that
turns very sharp. By design though, they straighten themselves.

Not Pipers, either. The nosewheel on Cherokees is connected to the rudder, so if
you touch down in a crosswind with some rudder in, you'd better neutralize the
rudder before the nosewheel touches down.

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Dave