Thank you, I learned more in 25 minutes listening to you about flying a taildragger then I ever learned flying a tricycle gear airplane...... real comprehensive and quick.. like the old school way of learning of how to fly... with the think operating hand books and practical experience... now in an emergency seems to me first thing pilots do is get out a book and look it up... what happened to get your stinking head outside of the Cockpit and fly the airplane first.... Now they cry to A.T.C. that just wastes precious recovery time and tells them to switch frequency's as they spin into the ground... 1. Aircraft control 2. Navigate 3 communicate... best focus on one first and for a darn good while more mandatory hood time.
Excellent instructional video! Currently doing tailwheel training after more than 1K hrs of flying. Should have done this much earlier in my flying career.
Thank You for sharing your knowledge! I have started Aerobatic training to enhance my piloting skills, but now I am interested, yet fearful, of tail wheel landings. Your video is very helpful, and has encouraged me to work toward a Tail Wheel endorsement.
Thank you so much for sharing this information. It is really HELPFUL to me who is new to this. Your graphics were super. Thanks for keeping the explanations simple and relevant. Great job! Hope you will make more. P.S. Don't get discouraged by the 'know it alls'. I doubt they made a video.
Gallopingthrulife Thanks,the most important part of tailwheel flying is attitude. attitude of the aircraft. Keep looking outside and keep it straight down the runway. thanks again, Jim
I'm in flight school right now and they use a Citabria which has made it tricky for me on a few take offs and landings! Good video:) Sometimes I wish I would have gone to a school with a Piper or Cessna but they said flying those will be a joke once I am good at the tail wheel.
Great video and great explanations! A lot of this applies to flying tricycle geared airplanes too. You covered basic airmanship principles for stabilized approaches well.
I get the idea most tailwheels are simply a faulty design, sorry....from springs on the cables and small tortured rolls rather than wheels not coping with the input loads alt all, not to speak about high pressure on the surfaces...on grass most of those small gadgets become rather hooks than wheels... and my idea for finally getting lessons( we have waiting lists in Europe! not joking! ) is to do it all in a taildragger from the start...i did my motorcycle training from the start with the full weight and ccm engines, and why not learning to fly in a taildragger from the start, maybe a hood idea to select a school on that parameter...! and thanks for the instructions, well done and ...yes, 10 yrs ago...👍
17:45 "On most aircraft prop will not hit ground if main wheels are on the ground.."" I call dangerous , stupid bovine scatology on that. Too much stick forward, with mains on ground, or accidental brake press a little too much, and prop will hit the ground. The mains act as a pivot.
The basic premise is still correct - Start correcting a turn quickly, before it gets out of hand - That is not inaccurate information - that is imperitive to prevent an accident
As someone mentioned above - Force = Mass x Acceleration, I think somebody combined this with Kinetic Energy = 1/2 Mass x Acceleration^2. Nice video though.
Thank you, I learned more in 25 minutes listening to you about flying a taildragger then I ever learned flying a tricycle gear airplane...... real comprehensive and quick.. like the old school way of learning of how to fly... with the think operating hand books and practical experience... now in an emergency seems to me first thing pilots do is get out a book and look it up... what happened to get your stinking head outside of the Cockpit and fly the airplane first.... Now they cry to A.T.C. that just wastes precious recovery time and tells them to switch frequency's as they spin into the ground... 1. Aircraft control 2. Navigate 3 communicate... best focus on one first and for a darn good while more mandatory hood time.
Excellent instructional video! Currently doing tailwheel training after more than 1K hrs of flying. Should have done this much earlier in my flying career.
Excellent presentation and thank you for putting it together and publishing.
Thank You for sharing your knowledge! I have started Aerobatic training to enhance my piloting skills, but now I am interested, yet fearful, of tail wheel landings. Your video is very helpful, and has encouraged me to work toward a Tail Wheel endorsement.
great video! thanks for posting.
Great comprehensive aide!! I get to fly a J3 tomorrow!!
Well done! Good informative video!
Thanks for putting this together
Thank you so much for sharing this information. It is really HELPFUL to me who is new to this. Your graphics were super. Thanks for keeping the explanations simple and relevant. Great job! Hope you will make more. P.S. Don't get discouraged by the 'know it alls'. I doubt they made a video.
Gallopingthrulife Thanks,the most important part of tailwheel flying is attitude. attitude of the aircraft.
Keep looking outside and keep it straight down the runway.
thanks again,
Jim
good instruction and advice,.. Thank you sir
Excellent !! Thank you alot !
I'm in flight school right now and they use a Citabria which has made it tricky for me on a few take offs and landings! Good video:) Sometimes I wish I would have gone to a school with a Piper or Cessna but they said flying those will be a joke once I am good at the tail wheel.
I got lucky and did all my tailwheel tra. In a E B18! Had fun and flew 135...but had little trouble in a citabria 1 hr tra. Like the E18 better!!
Very Informative, I recently got a tail wheel sport plane and I'm needing some help understanding the dif landing characteristics from a trike gear.
Great video and great explanations! A lot of this applies to flying tricycle geared airplanes too. You covered basic airmanship principles for stabilized approaches well.
I realize Im pretty off topic but do anybody know of a good place to watch new movies online?
@Raylan Dalton flixportal :P
@Axton Michael Thank you, I went there and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :) Appreciate it !!
@Raylan Dalton you are welcome :D
In my country tailwheel is standard flight training. Very difficult to keep centerline.
Best all around ground school skill-set-in-a-box I have seen for generalized tailwheel aircraft basic instruction! Jim, where do you teach?
I get the idea most tailwheels are simply a faulty design, sorry....from springs on the cables and small tortured rolls rather than wheels not coping with the input loads alt all, not to speak about high pressure on the surfaces...on grass most of those small gadgets become rather hooks than wheels...
and my idea for finally getting lessons( we have waiting lists in Europe! not joking! ) is to do it all in a taildragger from the start...i did my motorcycle training from the start with the full weight and ccm engines, and why not learning to fly in a taildragger from the start, maybe a hood idea to select a school on that parameter...! and thanks for the instructions, well done and ...yes, 10 yrs ago...👍
Also, tread is not the distance between the wheels. That's called the track. The tread is the distance between the impressions on a single wheel.
right you are, the 2 were pretty much interchangeable where I grew up.
Thanks
Thanks, Maybe a little slow in parts.
Jim
Superb! thanks
Thanks it was fun making and all my students are asked to use it
I am just doing my tailwheel conversion (from trikes) and my instructor gets all his prospective students to watch this!! thanks again
Thanks, and I am glad it is being used by other than my students
Jim
17:45 "On most aircraft prop will not hit ground if main wheels are on the ground.."" I call dangerous , stupid bovine scatology on that. Too much stick forward, with mains on ground, or accidental brake press a little too much, and prop will hit the ground. The mains act as a pivot.
you can give Sporty's and King a run for the money
Thanks, learned in a tailwheel in the 50's
A run for the mooney perhaps ? heheheh
All food stuff.
I have been cheating, especially with crosswind landings. I have floats and land into the wind all the time. ;)
Uh what?! Force does **NOT** equal mass times acceleration squared. That's WRONG. You should stop teaching inaccurate information. F=MA . Period.
Right again, I got that from somewhere on the net.
Goes to show you that everything on the net is not correct
Thanks again
The basic premise is still correct - Start correcting a turn quickly, before it gets out of hand - That is not inaccurate information - that is imperitive to prevent an accident
As someone mentioned above - Force = Mass x Acceleration, I think somebody combined this with Kinetic Energy = 1/2 Mass x Acceleration^2.
Nice video though.
+dutchrjen - Sorry... My bad, I think it was late at night when I wrote that. Which I have to laugh about because I use 1/2 m*v^2 all the time... lol