On Jul 8, 10:49 am, John Smith wrote:
wrote:
On Jul 7, 1:13 pm, John Smith wrote:

Be VERY, VERY careful when doing this on wet grass!
It gets real interesting when the tail is up, the brakes are on, and the
mains are sliding down the runway. :-0

Done that, in a 185, braking as hard as I could with the tail
way up. It'll stop much shorter than the POH says, even when the grass
is wet.

And the surprised look on your face at the time... priceless! :-))
(I know it probably was on mine.)

I was taught be a pro who'd been a bush pilot and a pilot in
Africa, flying with a relief organization that had high standards and
many difficult and seldom-seen techniques. They still do. He showed me
what it would do, then taught me the technique. I've used in in other
taildraggers, too, and it's not difficult if you're current, which I'm
not much anymore. Too little time flying and too much time fixing.
That's what you get when you spend an extra four years becoming an
engineer: the pilots who don't do all that extra work get to do all
the flying. Life seems unfair sometimes.

Dan