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David MacRay
- Posts: 1259
- Joined: Wed Jun 03, 2015 3:00 pm
You need to change your setting Chuck. But watch out, so nobody skims you with an iron hat.
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Strega
- Posts: 384
- Joined: Tue May 05, 2015 1:43 am
Shiny,
You really need to stop putting words in other peoples mouths.
"according to strega, bob hoover is a bad pilot" show me where I said that?
Why not share again your "learning experiences"? (what was the total cost of the damages? did you pay or did insurance pay?)
Ive never heard of an insurance company that gives breaks on premiums for having at fault accidents/crashes... just sayin..
You really need to stop putting words in other peoples mouths.
"according to strega, bob hoover is a bad pilot" show me where I said that?
Why not share again your "learning experiences"? (what was the total cost of the damages? did you pay or did insurance pay?)
Ive never heard of an insurance company that gives breaks on premiums for having at fault accidents/crashes... just sayin..
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Strega
- Posts: 384
- Joined: Tue May 05, 2015 1:43 am
Shiny,
Are you comparing yourself to Bob Hoover?
Do you think Bob Hoover would have crashed a light plane due to simply aircraft mishandling?
Do you think Bob Hoover would have "crashed" into a frost heave that was there when you took off?
Was it you that crashed the maule doing a "tallwheel checkout" ?
Are you comparing yourself to Bob Hoover?
Do you think Bob Hoover would have crashed a light plane due to simply aircraft mishandling?
Do you think Bob Hoover would have "crashed" into a frost heave that was there when you took off?
Was it you that crashed the maule doing a "tallwheel checkout" ?
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Colonel
- Posts: 3450
- Joined: Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:31 am
Maules are actually surprisingly nasty on dry pavement.
I flew the older ones, with the narrow gear and tiny
vertical fin. Like a Beech 18, they were perfectly
happy sideways.
Maule tried to to improve their ground handling with
a wider gear and a bigger vertical fin, but that only
made them weathervane horribly in a strong crosswind,
where you want a tiny vertical fin and a big rudder.
Teaching tailwheel is not easy. You have to figure
out how much rope you can give someone before
you reel them in. They will put the airplane into
the strangest conditions that you never would,
and then with split-second timing you need to
recover it.
Probably the worst is teaching someone to land
a Pitts. I never, ever want to do that again.
Worse than teaching formation. Well, almost.
Probably the worst instruction I can think of is
teaching someone negative G formation. Ugh.
Physically unpleasant and extremely dangerous
with the reversed controls.
I flew the older ones, with the narrow gear and tiny
vertical fin. Like a Beech 18, they were perfectly
happy sideways.
Maule tried to to improve their ground handling with
a wider gear and a bigger vertical fin, but that only
made them weathervane horribly in a strong crosswind,
where you want a tiny vertical fin and a big rudder.
Teaching tailwheel is not easy. You have to figure
out how much rope you can give someone before
you reel them in. They will put the airplane into
the strangest conditions that you never would,
and then with split-second timing you need to
recover it.
Probably the worst is teaching someone to land
a Pitts. I never, ever want to do that again.
Worse than teaching formation. Well, almost.
Probably the worst instruction I can think of is
teaching someone negative G formation. Ugh.
Physically unpleasant and extremely dangerous
with the reversed controls.
