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 Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:47 pm Post subject: Ground Loops, not yet |
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As an old instructor with several thousand hours in taildraggers from Aeronca C-3 to DC-3 here are my comments. This is just my opinion
Anybody is susceptible to a ground loop. However preventing them is simple in most cases. Training, training and practice, practice! First find an instructor that is not only current in tailwheels, but has flown a variety of them. If one has 1000 hours in a KitFox that does not make him an excellent tailwheel instructor, how much has he instructed in the KitFox ? Flying PIC and instructing are two different stories. The more versatile experience the instructor has in a variety of aircraft the more "deviations" from standard he has experienced. Talk to people, ask former students of his that fly tailwheels, and very important have a talk with the instructor prior to starting flying with him. If the instructor doesn't start out by explaining the aerodynamic influences of the attitude of the aircraft & "P" factor you better go elsewhere. IF you do not have an excellent understanding of the forces acting on the aircraft from the minute the throttle goes above idle you will not understand why the aircraft reacts as it does. For those of you that have flown a Pitts, even knowing what is going to happen still does not prepare you for the rapidity of how fast it happens! Get a GOOD instructor, study and have a good understanding of what will happen with different attitudes and plenty of training You will enjoy taildraggers as I have for the last 48 years, my first one was a Cessna 140 and many many since and I still love them. Sometimes it may just not be your day, a blown tire, brake failure, student touching down a little to much out of alignment etc. However practice makes perfect, as much as possible in aviation. So far I still say: there are those who have and those who will, I just try to keep that out of the log. Besides, it is not a reportable error is it??? Still instructing in a Super Cub occasionally and loving every minute of it. Again this is just my opinion!
Elbie Mendenhall
EM Aviation
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