"C J Campbell" wrote in message ...
"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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There is absolutely
no reason to learn to fly a tailwheel aircraft unless you plan on owning
one
or have some other special need, such as bush piloting or you are a CFI
who
wants to instruct in them.

My tailwheel background certainly makes me a much better Mooney pilot.
It certainly makes me a better CFI. I'm able to let students take the
172 further towards the weeds with confidence that I can control it.
Non-tailwheel CFIs have to jump in there right away and the students
takes 3 times longer to learn foot work.

It is not your tailwheel background that lets you do that. It is your
experience, pure and simple.

I disagree. I think its my tailwheel experience. I had almost 100
hours in my book (and my private) before I sat in a nosewheel GA
plane.

-Robert