Oh, The Humanity

[Big Pistons Forever]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oh,_the_humanity

Quotation from US broadcaster Herbert Morrison (1905-1989) during his coverage of the Hindenburg disaster.

"This is terrible; this is one of the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world. Oh it's... [unintelligible]

Oh, the humanity, and all the passengers screaming around here!"

This is why there should be an SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Airplanes)

[Colonel]

All I ask is that people try to keep it straight on the runway :^)

Founding Member of PETA™ - People who Eat Tasty Animals

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[Slick Goodlin]

you quoted my “a conventional gear conversion” above the picture.

Right. Perhaps I should have said I had a broader range of things to pull from the world of ‘airplanes with bothersome wheel placement’

[Slick Goodlin]

‘airplanes with bothersome wheel placement’

…and speaking of:

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[Nark]

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[David MacRay]

[dumbbell daddy]

I know. Taildraggers (and the people who fly them) are museum pieces, and everyone else wishes they'd just go away.

And yet ... Shiny (my favorite Socialist and fellow museum piece) disagrees with me on this, but I think taildraggers are wonderful trainers. See, even if the instructor is weak and forgiving, the taildragger certainly will not be on dry pavement. It will brutally teach the student a lesson about yaw control.

Yaw control. A fundamental stick and rudder skill. Does it matter any more? Well, if you want to land in a crosswind, control an aircraft during a stall, or avoid crashing a twin after an engine failure .... well, yes. Controlling yaw is actually pretty darned important.



Yeah, I know, he's probably left seat at Air Canada now, so does it really matter? I get it. But can I ask, how well did this King Air pilot control yaw after takeoff?

Funny story , I was actually going to buy the engine from that hangar "rash"......until I saw the video! It was advertised as a "O-320 prop strike, good core." Uh huh.....

[Squaretail]

And yet ... Shiny (my favorite Socialist and fellow museum piece) disagrees with me on this, but I think taildraggers are wonderful trainers. See, even if the instructor is weak and forgiving, the taildragger certainly will not be on dry pavement. It will brutally teach the student a lesson about yaw control.

Hold on, I don't think they're bad trainers, I just don't credit inanimate objects with any inherent "teaching" ability, if there even is such a thing. After all, paraphrasing Thulsa Doom, the plane is nothing compared to the hand that operates it. Whether a student learns from a plane, taildragger, nose-dragger, floats or amphibs depends way more on the student than the plane. I know people who have never learned what the taildragger has to teach, and the expense hasn't had enough INTENSITY or EFFECT to nail it home. Some of them even started on the things. There's a lot of reasons for that. What you may think is a brutal lesson in yaw control, the student may right off as something else, too windy, their tires weren't inflated correctly, they didn't have the flaps right, whatever. Such is the way of things.

I recall one fellow who bragged to me that he had wrecked something like 13 airplanes, lots of them taildraggers. I don't think he was learning anything from them. I learned on a nose dragger, I like to think I learned well, because I have under 2 hours in a taildragger dual. So if I could do it, others who can just aren't that special. All you have to do is want to be good at it and put the time into it.

Also I'm hardly a socialist, I'm just the most left leaning person, you know, and Hell, even that I know.

[Colonel]

I'm just the most left leaning person, you know

Given that I live just south of SF, that’s actually quite something!

Not sure I agree that aircraft aren’t good teachers. One of the best flight instructors I ever knew - Bill Whaley, long dead and deeply hated by TC - never said much in the cockpit. He mostly sat there quietly while you taught yourself to fly. He viewed his job as stopping you from killing yourself while you taught yourself to fly.

An interesting philosophy. With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight (and thousands of miles from TC) I might observe that no one really ever teaches anything. Sometimes learning occurs and sometimes it doesn’t, and this is very loosely correlated with whatever instruction might happen to be occurring at the time.

[Nark]

My most uttered phrase:”I don’t recommend doing that…”
When flying with new pilots in the Bus.



Unfortunately, Bill I am not. I need to run my mouth the entire flight doing IOE.

Much of the time spent doing initial OE, you’re not always challenged, and don’t get a good rounded experience before being signed off, released to the line.
I can’t hold a guy back because he hasn’t seen a 15+knot crosswind, or deice, or contaminated runway, etc…
Hope on one hand, poop in the other…