Bob A tail wheel aircraft has definite advantages over nose draggers, sorry, nosewheel aircraft. Its a little like waterskiing with two ski's or one. Give it a try. There is a little more skill required and if you learned on a tail wheel like some of us old poops you would understand that if you can fly a taildragger a nose dragger is baby poop (easy) to fly. Something like learning to drive wirth an automatic transmission. If you can't use a clutch people who can consider you as not completely trained. They don't necessarily look down on you but telling them that there is no need to know how to drive a straight shift is not a good idea. Another example is paratroopers look down on ground troops, men who fly the airplanes that the paratroopers jump look down on the men who jump. They think their crazy as some nose wheel pilots think taildragger pilots are. Pilots who launch from an aircraft carrier look down on every other pilot except astronauts because they want to become one. They have a faster ride! Airline pilots buy Cubs and Champs to fly for fun because that the real flying. This diatribe was not meant to insult or flame you or any other nose wheel pilot (Mark James) in any way, it is only to enlighten you to why tailwheel pilots react the way we do when someone says tailwheeling is out of date. We can do something that nosedraggers can't and are proud of it. Tell a Seal that he is the same as an army grunt and check out his reaction. Like I said, give it a try. It may change your whole prospective.
This is the way I see it, no reflection on anyone else. By the way, anyone want to buy a nosewheel setup? Steve Bray Jackson, Tennessee >From: "Robert L. Stone" <rsto...@hot.rr.com> >Reply-To: KRnet <kr...@mylist.net> >To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> >Subject: Re: KR> Nose Gear question >Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:34:55 -0500 > > 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 > > > > >_______________________________________ >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
