Unless your tailwheel aircraft is a tandem cockpit, the need
to have an accurate reference point still is present. BUT
it is true that a tailwheel will immediately show the error
of your ways.

A little rephrasing, all aircraft pilots need an accurate
reference point for each axis, in a tandem cockpit, where
the pilot sits on the centerline, the selection of a point
is not as likely to wrong.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
...
| On 2005-12-10, Jim Macklin p51mustang wrote:
| The cure is to first get an accurate reference point
| directly in front of the pilot, parallel and off-set
from
| the centerline;
|
| The cure is also to learn to fly a tailwheel aircraft.
That will very
| rapidly get you out the habit of landing slightly crooked,
since doing
| that tends to send you on a short sharp trip to groundloop
city!
|
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