On Jul 8, 7:31 am, Stealth Pilot
wrote:

I flew nose wheel aircraft in my early years then did a tailwheel
endorsement in a bugger of an aircraft to land, the Auster.
Then I bough a Tailwind through a long convoluted process and have
flown it ever since.

I learned to fly taildraggers in an Auster VI. Towing
gliders. It went something like this: Two or three circuits, then the
other guy got out, I did another circuit, and then they connected the
glider and away I went. I later owned that airplane.

your question on experience levels misses something.
taking a Cessna 150 as the datum point, an Auster is a quantum leap
harder to land and takeoff well. in the air both are superb to fly.
the tailwind is a quantum harder again to fly.

I found the Auster to have all the handling qualitites of
a dump truck. It did have really good short-field performance,
especially that MkVI with those Zap flaps, but really heavy ailerons
just like its Taylorcraft ancestor. My Jodel is much more squirrelly.

Dan