Chuck Ellsworth

These discussions go on and on and on.............

...............for me personally I will not approve any pilot on a tail wheel airplane unless said pilot is equally proficient and comfortable doing both wheel landings and three point landings.

That solves the puzzle of what type of landing the pilot will decide to do based on the conditions and the airplane being flown.....

Having flown a whole lot of tail wheel airplanes for thousands and thousands of hours there was only one airplane I did not three point because I felt it was just to risky to contact the runway without effective rudder control which it did not have near the point of stall.

That airplane was the Turbo Goose.

2hotwot

The reason given for tailwheel first landing on a Jodel was that it had a low ground angle and landing that way gave a marginally slower touchdown and thus shorter landing run.

robin

... and the cranked wing helps with a wing-down approach all the way down.

foxmoth

What has that got to do with wheeling it on? My preferred technique in a crosswind is wing down wheeler, so with that comment I am more likely to look at wheeling it than 3 (2) pointing, and personally never had a problem wheeling on a Jodel.

robin

Your aircraft, your choice.

Personally I've never had the need to wheel it on, as yet. The only problem I've experienced is trying to taxi in strong winds afterwards.

betterfromabove

Thanks for all the input on the Jodel question.

Part of the reason I ask is that it occurred to me that if you abort a T/O with the tail up, then you are effectively in a wheeler-like scenario....and it got me wondering again what was the concern in putting the plane in roughly the same configuration (45-50kts, tail up) on landing?

2hotwot - Found your explanation regarding tailskids vs wheels very enlightening.