Because I can and its fun! :)

[Colonel]

[quote]short-coupled[/quote]

Looking at extremes is a good way to
understand stuff.

At one extreme is a taildragger with a
long distance from the main gear to the
tail, especially if it has a very large vertical
fin.  With some wind on the nose - either
from a headwind down the runway, or a
little airspeed - it's going to be very
aerodynamically stable in yaw.  It's
going to want to weathervane strongly
and point into the wind.

At the other extreme is a taildragger with
a very short distance from the main gear
to the tail, especially if the vertical fin
is undersized.  Look at some WWI aircraft
sometime.  That airplane is going to display
very little interest in weathervaning and
will happily fly sideways.

Especially if the short-coupled taildragger
has a very large rudder (a factor we have
not yet considered) you can see that
combined with a small vertical fin, we
have an airplane that will happily fly
completely sideways, with the ball
fully deflected.  The Beech 18 and
Maule M4 and Pitts come to mind.

A short-coupled taildragger with a
small vertical fin and large rudder is
going to do exactly what the pilot
tells it to do, which is generally a
very bad thing.  As Curtis Pitts once
said, "there are no squirrelly airplanes,
only squirrelly pilots!"

Most pilots don't like an airplane like that
(cue "fire-breathing dragon" nonsense)
but it will handle a strong crosswind MUCH
better than a "weathervaner" that pilots
prefer, with a long distance from the main
gear to the tail, a big vertical fin and a
small rudder.

Anyways, by simply looking at a taildragger -
the distance from the main gear to the tail,
the size of the vertical fin, the size of the rudder -
I have a pretty good idea how it's going to fly.

But I'm a "BAD PERSON" - hell, yesterday I
jumped solo into a twin of a type I had never
flown before, no checklist, and off I went, so
I probably don't know very much.

[Purplehelmut]

[quote author=Chuck Ellsworth link=topic=198.msg611#msg611 date=1433729747]
[quote]

What does that make you?
[/quote]

You are free to call me anything you care to.

However the one thing you can't call me is someone who hides behind a made up name.

So go fu.k yourself.

How's that for an answer?
[/quote]

I didn't actually call you anything. I just thought it was a bit strange to be calling someone an asshole in a public forum for no apparent reason. And now you've told me to "go fuck yourself" for simply calling you out on calling BPF an asshole. Why on earth do you think I would use my real name to someone who tells me to "go fuck yourself" on first introduction for no reason?

Anyway, why don't you just come out with it and tell everyone what you beef with BPF actually is. You've said on pprune that BPF used to work for you, so I'm guessing that has something to do with it.

[Purplehelmut]

[quote author=cloudrunner link=topic=198.msg618#msg618 date=1433752236]

Another troll who's first post is to call Chuck out… I am seeing a pattern here, a pattern of little dweebs with stupid names saying stupid shit to wind people up.
[/quote]

Hey, I didn't start this. It was Chuck who first called BPF an asshole. My stupid name seemed appropriate, given the idiotic juvenile bitching that's happening on this forum. You might even call it satirical.

[Colonel]

[quote]I didn't start this[/quote]

What are you, 5 years old?

Typical Avcan dickwad.  Feel free
to go back there anytime.

Shot In The Dark:  You're CID, right?

[Chuck Ellsworth]

I have already expressed my opinion on BPF Purplehelmut, his having worked for me and having had the opportunity to access his abilities as an instructor back in that frame time has not softened my opinion.

As to using my real name here on an aviation forum I see no problem with that as I have nothing to try and hide as a pilot.

Do you use a made up name in your day to day association with others in society?

[Chuck Ellsworth]

These cowards will soon crawl back into the safety of Avcanada because Scud allows us to deal with them without having to sanitize our comments Colonel.

[Purplehelmut]

[quote author=Colonel link=topic=198.msg625#msg625 date=1433772067]

Typical Avcan dickwad.  Feel free
to go back there anytime.

Shot In The Dark:  You're CID, right?
[/quote]

Well, at least you can't bully Scud into deleting entire threads when someone brings up your tribunal, like you do on avcanada.

[Purplehelmut]

[quote author=Chuck Ellsworth link=topic=198.msg626#msg626 date=1433772101]
Do you use a made up name in your day to day association with others in society?
[/quote]

No. However I don't tend to have people come up to me screaming abuse in real life.

[David MacRay]

[quote author=Purplehelmut link=topic=198.msg630#msg630 date=1433774519]
[quote author=Chuck Ellsworth link=topic=198.msg626#msg626 date=1433772101]
Do you use a made up name in your day to day association with others in society?
[/quote]

No. However I don't tend to have people come up to me screaming abuse in real life.
[/quote]

It would be impressive in a way if you had the confidence to use that nick name in real life. Not sure what sort of employment a person going by that would participate in. Entertainer?

[Chuck Ellsworth]

Purplehelmut will soon disappear from this forum as people get tired of his boring comments......reading his posts is sort of like accidentally stepping in dog shit.