[Rant Warning] Tailwheel Training

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message ...
"Bob Moore" wrote in message
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"C J Campbell" wrote

I will tell you one thing about old pilots: I have never flown with a
pilot who had more than 15,000 hours who did not scare me to death.
The last one, a guy who had 17,000 hours and more than 7,000 hour in
type (a twin), could not hold altitude within 200 feet and had no idea
how to set up an instrument approach. He knew it, too.

Well CJ, here's one 69 year old pilot that thinks that you're full
of ****! I logged my 20,000th hour about 12 years ago and I spent
this past Friday out teaching spins to a Private Pilot who wanted
some advanced instruction. As a bonus, I threw in a few "to-the-
stops" flap 40 slips in his C-172.


Yup...you scared him to death.

What's wrong with full-slipping a 172 with 40 flap? We do that, and
the airplane won't drop nearly as radically as a Citabria. The 172's
rudder is mostly cosmetic, I think.

Dan

Dan Thomas wrote:
The 172's rudder is mostly cosmetic, I think.

Now *that* is classic .sig material!

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Alan Gerber
gerber AT panix DOT com

The 172's rudder is mostly cosmetic, I think.

Now *that* is classic .sig material!

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It is not! It's a good place to mount a light.

"tony" wrote in message
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The 172's rudder is mostly cosmetic, I think.

Now *that* is classic .sig material!

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It is not! It's a good place to mount a light.

In a .sig?