Mxsmanic wrote:
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Tail draggers were starting to become somewhat rare because most makers
stopped making them.

Why did they stop making them?

Why did they stop making cars with tail fins?

Nose gear airplanes became the fashion for GA, with a small number of
tail dragger enthusiasts.

Tail draggers are making a resurgance because of the nostalgia, they tend
to be cheaper to make (and thus sell), and there are situations where a
nose wheel is not really desirable to have.

Nope, most pilots will continue to train in something inexpensive and
transition to something else later.

I was thinking mainly of people training for piloting as a career, where
financial limitations are less of a factor.

Financial limitations are always a factor in everything in real life.

Do you think the Air Force is going to do primary training in F-22's and
scrap all the trainers?

For transport pilots, I don't think they will use F-22s at all.

Non sequitur.

Do you think the Air Force is going to do primary training in anything other
than cheap (by comparison) primary trainers?

This is never going to happen. Keep deluding yourself.

Wait and see. It will happen first in the Third World.

Nope, because such pilots wouldn't be allowed to fly out of the third world
and real simulators that accurately simulate actual flight cost more than
primary trainers.

Yeah, for a type rating for a similar airplane.

That wasn't possible before, and now it is. More changes along these lines
will occur in the future.

Yeah, computers were invented making it possible to build a simulator.

And, FYI, the FAA has been talking about increasing the flight time
requirements for pilots flying paying customers, not decreasing them or
using simulation.

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Jim Pennino

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