I have heard lots of people scornfully refer to the nose wheel as a training wheel and regard pilots who fly airplanes with one as not real pilots and it doesn't bother me a bit. I learned to fly on a nose wheel airplane and to me getting tail dragger qualified would be backing up. The nose wheel was a great improvement when it first came out and almost eliminates ground looping so it's a good thing even if the tail dragger pilots refuse to recognize it as such. It is just really a matter of personal preference.
Bob Stone, Harker Heights, Tx rsto...@hot.rr.com ------ Original Message ----- From: "Mark Jones" <mjo...@muellersales.com> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 2:06 PM Subject: RE: KR> Nose Gear question > Steve, > I resent that comment about the training gear. Let me tell you what my > Dad once told me when I was a little boy and would put off doing > things....and I quote "Son, there are a lot of things in life we do not > want to do and will put them off. Now quit dragging your tail and get it > done." I have not dragged my tail since. Oh yea and just a little > note...when I returned from the 2005 KR Gathering, my hanger mate right > next to me who has an Avid tail dragger lost it on landing the day > before I returned and totaled his plane. He has two destroyed wings, a > bent fuselage and a shattered ego. He is a very experienced tail dragger > pilot who now wishes he had installed a nose gear. To each his own, they > are all beautiful flying machines and each takes special skills to > master. :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net]On > Behalf Of Steve Jacobs > > ... no more shimmy.Like I said, for what it is worth. > > (Best solution: Dump the training gear) > > Steve Jacobs > Zambia > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
