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I'm tailwheel endorsed!
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:47 pm
by tmbg
I got five hours in a champ over yesterday and today, and I'm officially and legally competent to fly taildraggers!
I had an absolute blast
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:30 am
by cjensen
Awesome Ian!!! It is a lot of fun!
Glad to hear you got it done...hope you can stay current easier than me...
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:08 am
by tmbg
sadly, I think that's going to be really hard unless I can manage to buy some sort of cheap taildragger to knock around in. Those are getting harder and harder to find!
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:45 pm
by rv8or
Ian--
Congrats!
I just had my second TW lesson this morning in a Decath. RWY 16, 190 15G25. Pretty much kicked my ass. Still had a lot of fun. The hamster that powers the light build in my head is picking up speed.
Congrats again
Joe
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:01 pm
by RV7Factory
rv8or wrote:The hamster that powers the light build in my head is picking up speed.
But obviously not enough speed.
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:25 pm
by dons
Congrats Ian.
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:37 pm
by rv8or
RV7Factory wrote:rv8or wrote:The hamster that powers the light build in my head is picking up speed.
But obviously not enough speed.
OUCH! After 7200 hrs, I'm trying to figure out how to land an airplane by not pulling BACK on the stick and you want me to worry about spelling? Besides, that was my subconscious typing...I should spend my days off BULBING (
) not flying.
J
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:58 pm
by dons
Man, my input filters kept showing me
bulb until I read it more than 5 times
. I guess cause I spend so much time working with filters to block e-mail spam I don't notice my own 'input filters' at work
.
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 3:08 pm
by svanarts
An RV-4 is a great way to stay TW current. I know where you buy one.
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 9:44 pm
by tmbg
svanarts wrote:An RV-4 is a great way to stay TW current. I know where you buy one.
I'd actually love to buy a flying 4. If it's cheap enough and I can do owner financing, maybe I will!
As it is, I don't think the bank will give me another loan for an airplane while I'm already paying on one.
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:36 pm
by svanarts
Stupid banks.
TDs Rule
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:57 am
by leeschaumberg
Glad to hear that you've been there and done that. I flew a tail dragger with out a tail once. A J3 with floats on it!