Thanks for the Pitts advice, certainly something to look forward to for the future, I would guess I need to get my PPL and then get some basic taildragger experience before having a hope with something so twitchy!
Here's a taildragger question though - at one time all aircraft were this configuration, certainly up to WW2. So everyone presumably learnt on them! It now seems to be classed as an advanced skill, I wondered if one of the main reasons was that in the "old days" airfields were just a big grass field and you could always land into the wind?
A lot of the GA fields now seem to be converted WW2 bases like Gamston and Sandtoft up here, but they only have one of the three runways working.
I've got an old flying manual from 1916 and it doesn't even mention crosswinds!
- Michael