KR> Landing a taildragger

2012-05-06 Thread Lee Parker
Well, I finally figured out what my problem was landing.  First off my brakes were not very good so, I changed the master cylinders and that fixed that.  I was using the slight slack method on the tail wheel.  I changed to springs with very little slack and installed a tailwheel lock ( which I f

KR> landing a taildragger

2008-10-12 Thread Coda Riley
I grew up watching, in my opinion, the best pilot's in the world. Crop duster pilot's. I think they land,sometime's, on the roughest and crooked runway's. In watching them for year's,,,I could tell that there wasn't really a right or wrong way to land a taildragger. It was a matter of prefer

KR>Landing a taildragger

2008-10-12 Thread robert tallini
Colin & bev Rainey Just want to let you know what a nice job you did in explaining the anatomy of a taildragger landing. It was a lot better, more complete, than my effort. When I went thru flight training the Navy wanted landings to be tail wheel first. Make sure the hook enga