Larry Flesner wrote: > I have no way of comparing it to my KR handling. I do, however, > see a lot of tailwheel aircraft with sometimes VERY loose cables to > the tailwheel. I'm just not sure what I'm missing out on that would > cause me to want to change my setup. Your thoughts would > be appreciated.
We all know that I'm no taildragger expert, but mine are set up with no springs at all, and pretty loosely. I did this on Troy's recommendation. He swears by it, and since it works for me, I can only assume it might make taildragging childishly simple. Having said that, Larry's apparently works too, so maybe it doesn't make a big of difference! But the logic is that if you land carrying some rudder to keep lined up with the runway, when the wheel touches down it won't be straight and might jerk you around a little. If the wheel has some slop in it, it'll just pivot to where it wants to be and you'll never even notice. Of course, that's proabably what springs are for, but springs create drag, and we wouldn't want that! Since I'm a sloppy kinda pilot, it works for me. I must say that having finally figured out how to land a KR (which has nothing to do with whether it's a taildragger or a tri-gear), I have to wonder what's so difficult about ground handling with taildraggers... Mark Langford, Huntsville, clueless taildragger see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
