Taylor monoplane. Some thoughts on tailwheel training. For those new pilots wanting to get some stick time in a taildragger there are 2 seat ag plane's such as Piper Pawnee that has some compairneson to a KR touchy elevator and so on. May be worth checking in your local area for this type of plane. FWIW
On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 3:55 PM Mike Stirewalt via KRnet < krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote: > Sam said, > > > "Moral of the story............... Fly a tri-gear." > > I don't know if flying a tri-gear is the moral of the story, however it > surely does make ground handling more comfortable since you can see > things better and are sitting in a level, more natural, attitude. I was > amazed the first time I flew a KR tri-gear (Jim Morehead's plane) how > effortless it was to handle on the ground and to land. > > I think once a person is comfortable with conventional gear, all landings > - whether tri-gear or not - are made exactly the same. Stick full back, > as close to the stall as possible. Full attention to the rudder. > Tailwheel or tri-gear, exactly the same procedure. Having a nose gear > should make landings uneventful and a pleasure . . . instead of the > white-knuckle experience it is for most people who are doing their first > landings in a tailwheel KR. > > Still though, tri-gear landings go bad. Guys hit their nose gears on > touchdown and bend or break them . . . a consequence of coming in much > too fast and trying to force the plane onto the runway. Tailwheel > training should help/prevent that from ever happening. If I were ruler > of the world I would make it mandatory that pilots do their first few > hours in a conventional gear aircraft. They would from then on > instinctively land whatever plane they might be flying as if it had a > tailwheel. I think I would also mandate (as ruler of the world) that > all student pilots get at least a couple hours in a glider. > > Re Jim's plane, as effortless as it was to land, he and his instructor > still wound up off the runway upside down - at the very same airport > where I had done the first flights with his plane. Jim had utterly no > feel for flying. Some people don't. Some people shouldn't. > > Jim some of us may not know, has passed away. Not as a result of > flipping his KR but rather a result of allowing a surgeon to do a knee > replacement while Jim had a slight infection on his arm. The surgeon > didn't want to change his schedule and dismissed the arm infection as > inconsequential. Minor infection or not, once the surgical procedure > was done the infection headed straight for the knee incisions and turned > into MRSA which prevented the procedure from ever healing. Jim and his > wife Rae went through several years of what was one horror after another > as the doctors tried to get rid of the infection and get the new knee to > heal. They even re-did the replacement with another knee, with no > success. They removed the knee replacements completely in a last-ditch > effort to give Jim at least some freedom of movement . . .tried to get > the upper leg bone to bond with the lower leg bone. That would have left > Jim walking like Chester on Gunsmoke, but even that wouldn't heal. I'm > mentioning this to remind any and all of us to never do any surgical > procedure if there is the slightest infection anywhere in/on the body. > Jim was one of the healthiest-looking guys you can imagine. He was > slender and without any bad habits - no hypertension, no diabetes, no > nothing . . . just a calm, healthy guy who let a doctor do something that > should have been postponed. Rae was equally healthy and was an > energetic, optimistic woman who only allowed healthy food in the house. > (I stayed with them for three days). Taking care of Jim once the trouble > started had worn her down to a shadow of who she once was. > > Jim and Rae drove from Cameron Park to McMinnville for our fly-in and > they barely resembled the healthy people I had met several years earlier > when we did the first flights on his beautifully-built KR. Sorry to > bring this bit of misfortune into this conversation but perhaps > mentioning what happened to Jim, and how it happened, may save someone on > the list from making a similar mistake . . . a reminder of how easy it > can be to turn our world utterly upside down and over. In this case the > mistake was being too nice. They didn't want to inconvenience the > surgeon. 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