[Rant Warning] Tailwheel Training

On Wed, 19 May 2004 15:48:33 GMT, EDR wrote:

There are tricycle gear aircraft out there with big engines up front
(PA28-235/6, C182, etc) and under light loading conditions (front two
seats occupied, full fuel) the cg is towards the front of the envelope.
If the pilot doesn't learn to get the nose up on landing, the nose gear
and firewall are going to get damaged.

Right. And the people who own or fly in those airplanes are taught
not to land nose down. Doesn't seem like you have to take taildragger
lessons to know this.

Not all taildraggers are landed with the tail low either: The P-51
Mustang was often wheeled on, although some guys three pointed them.

The DC-3 is most often wheel landed.

Corky Scott

wrote

Not all taildraggers are landed with the tail low either: The P-51
Mustang was often wheeled on, although some guys three pointed them.

The first "tail dragger" that I flew was a Navy SNB (Beechcraft D-18).
Never three-pointed it. I guess then, that one could say that I never
learned to fly taildraggers. Probably not....because after building
my MiniMax, I always "wheel-landed" it. In fact, even without brakes,
I always taxied it with the tail up.

Bob Moore

Not all taildraggers are landed with the tail low either: The P-51
Mustang was often wheeled on, although some guys three pointed them.

The DC-3 is most often wheel landed.

Corky Scott

The RV series (or at least the 6) seems easier to wheel on than
3-point, especially if there's any kind of wind. I learned wheel
landings and had them figured out long before "3-point" (which is
actually 1-2 point; the tailwheel tends to hit just before the mains,
and then you bounce a bit).

On Wed, 19 May 2004 13:36:54 -0400,
wrote:

Not all taildraggers are landed with the tail low either: The P-51
Mustang was often wheeled on,

The only three-point landings I make in the Cub are the mistakes.

A stall-down landing is how I recover from a botched wheelie.
(Generally it's easier than going around

all the best -- Dan Ford
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