My tailwheel instructor was very good. He had me make fast taxi runs up and down the runway in his Citabria until the tailwheel rudder dance clicked with me before we did takeoffs and landings. He knew what RPM gave us the correct speed to get the tailwheel up, but to not go fast enough to take off. Once the rudder dance was mastered the rest was easy. For some reason most other instructors I hear about go right into touch and gos without doing high speed runs first. I really don't understand that logic because it is hard to master the rudder dance in small bits and pieces during touch and gos.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: KR> taxi testing From: Ed Janssen via KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Tue, February 03, 2015 4:06 pm To: "bjoenunley" <bjoenunley at gmail.com>, "KRnet" <krnet at list.krnet.org> I did 9 hours of taxiing before flying my KR-1 for the first time.
