Dan, the grandfather clause was instituted in 1991 for pilots with prior tailwheel experience. Any pilot post 1991 has to have a tailwheel endorsement to fly a certified tailwheel airplane, which is short of a flight review. Thus getting your tailwheel endorsement does not take the place of a required bi-annual. An instrument/commercial/multi etc. checkride qualify as a bi-annual. I have forgotten if there is an hour figure for grandfathering or if it was just tailwheel solo.
Dana Overall 1999 & 2000 National KR Gathering host Richmond, KY RV-7 slider/fuselage, Imron black, "Black Magic" Finish kit ordered!! Buying Instruments. Hangar flying my Dynon. http://rvflying.tripod.com do not archive >From: "Dan Heath" <da...@alltel.net> >Reply-To: KR builders and pilots <kr...@mylist.net> >To: <kr...@mylist.net> >Subject: Re: KR>tailwheel training >Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:00:55 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time) > >Is there really such a thing as a "tailwheel" endorsement. I have a good >many hours in a tailwheel KR and have no such "endorsement". I was either >lucky or not lucky back when I first flew mine because there either was no >such rule, or I was oblivious to it. I knew almost nothing about flying a >tailwheel and certainly was lucky to get through it without killing myself >or destroying my plane. > >I need a refresher, a long one, to get my license current before flying >again and asked my "to be" instructor if he had a tailwheel plane to give >me >the instruction and check ride in, no luck there. > >It is too bad that there isn't a school somewhere in the country that >specializes in tailwheel training, like the RV "transition" school. >However > for that, you even have to already be experienced in the type plane that >you are getting transition training for. > >N64KR > >Daniel R. Heath - Columbia, SC > >da...@kr-builder.org > >See you in Red Oak - 2003 > >See our KR at http://KR-Builder.org - Click on the pic >See our EAA Chapter 242 at http://EAA242.org > _______________________________________________ >see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html _________________________________________________________________ Use custom emotions -- try MSN Messenger 6.0! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_emoticon
