Wheel Landing

[JW Scud]

Here is a old classic about flying tailwheel:

[Colonel]

Adverse yaw can be tremendously helpful
to stay straight, which is what is important.

The slower you go, the more stick over into
wind.  Every crosswind landing should end
with the stick fully over into the wind.

Effectively, this enlarges your rudder, if
that helps.

[Chuck Ellsworth]

Have you three pointed the B18 yet Colonel?


If you haven't be aware the flaps really blanket the rudders.

[Slick Goodlin]

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Here is a old classic about flying tailwheel:

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Great video, I hadn't seen it before.  I wonder if they knew the ground loop they filmed was going to be that dramatic?

[Colonel]

[quote]Have you three pointed the B18 yet[/quote]

I cannot imagine why I ever would, unless
I was trying to put it into a 1000 foot grass
strip!

[Chuck Ellsworth]

On grass it would be more forgiving than on pavement.


There is really no need to three point the thing but if you do decide to do it make sure the fucking thing is tracking straight down the runway with no drift because the rudders will be very ineffective due to the flaps blanking them out.


As long as it contacts the runway with no drift and lined up straight down the runway it is no big deal.


By the way the DC3 is a pussy cat to three point it is probably the best airplane ever made.

[Colonel]

My father told me the Beech 18 was a lot more
squirrelly than the DC-3, which he described as
quite tame and forgiving in comparison.

One of these days I've got to get my C-47/DC-3
type rating ... I should have got it at Geneseo.

[David MacRay]

If you get a tha type rating with these guys, http://aerometalinternational.com/ftraining.html they give you a terrific souvenir piston.

Now I just need to hit that monster lotto...  8)

[Chuck Ellsworth]

Normally I would advise against paying for a type rating just to have one.


However getting a type rating in the DC3 is really worth while.


It's sort of like getting experience with a real woman rather than a blow up doll.

[David MacRay]

It's expensive?