On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:26:21 -0500 "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> writes: > Larry Flesner wrote:
> Hey, you just asked WHY, not if it actually WORKED! Reality is probably > that the tailwheel is so light that it just skitters along when you land > with it cocked off to one side, so it probably doesn't matter one bit, like > you said. On my plane the tailwheel doesn't have much to do anyway, since > it's up almost immediately after adding power, so what do I know anyway? > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama Actually, I used to own a piece of a Cub with a bunch of rookie tailwheel pilots. They had the tailwheel steering so tight that it was always skidding instead of steering while they were learning tailwheel. I finally changed it to some lilght extension springs to loosen it up so it would steer instead of skidding. Jeff Scott
