Originally Posted by
First_Principal
Students are always going to give undercarriages a hard time, possibly the only thing to learn here (or have reaffirmed) is that Tecnam's aren't terrifically robust.
We had one online for a while, I recollect comments about the undercarriage being a bit light for training which is why it had been 'retired' from the previous operator and was never for use by inexperienced pilots.
Pleased to read that from an injury perspective it's possibly only a bruised ego at worst.
Learn on a taildragger, from the beginning, you need to arrive at the right speed, rate of descent and hold the flare, or it will bite. You learn the right actions and discipine.
Learning on a tricycle is OK if the instructor himself knows what he is doing, but have ssen so many instructors arriving way to fast, not correcting for parallax on side by side trainers. and at the flare just hold the stick and rudder ( If they ever use it) and wait...Not their fault, they have not been thaught properly.. And with crosswinds it's a rodeo.. As an american friend told me instructors need to be sweating on the right side of their face ....So the student can't see the fear...
Any Cessna or Piper can take the abuse..but Tecnams....