"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
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"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
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"C J Campbell" wrote in
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I suppose those never happened when everyone learned in
tail-draggers.

If you ground loop or nose over a tric, you've really screwed up.
You
can ground loop or nose over either one, the taildragger does a
better
job of teaching you how not to get in that situation (it the
stick/yoke
isn't in you gut, you are heading for a problem).


If the yoke is in your gut in most Cessnas, you are heading for a
destroyed
tiedown ring and possibly a tail cone replacement.

If that isn't one of the worst statements ever posted to this
newsgroup
I
don't know what is.

Yeah, well, we replace half a dozen tiedown rings a year, thanks to the
idiotic advice of people like you. I ought to send you the bill.

If you can't land a Cessna with the yoke all the way back you have serious
problems. Sounds like a training issue to me. Send me the bill if you
like.

Personally, I think the manufacturer probably has a better idea of how the
airplane should be flown than a bunch of Usenet know-it-alls. You pitch for
airspeed, not for position of the yoke. If you can't control your airspeed,
you have serious problems.

You have just convinced me that flying taildraggers not only does not make
you a better pilot, it makes you worse to the point of being destructive.
The Cessna 172 was not meant to be landed like a tailwheel aircraft.
Attempts to do that are both dangerous and wasteful.

Not only that, I am increasingly disturbed by tailwheel pilots' obsession
with landing as the only measure of the quality of a pilot. It really tells
me something -- like, they don't know how to do anything else. I hope you
will excuse me now. It is obvious that I have disturbed a bunch of religious
fanatics.