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Old 22nd Nov 2005, 15:03
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An hour! Blimey. We couldn't have even completed the gen handling in that time. Took me about 5 hours. But then again he did say after a session "Do a few solo circuits if you want". It was about one and a half hours before I returned FWIW, to be comprehensively converted it must surely take a few hours just to fit in crosswinds, wheeler landings, wing-down and crab approaches. One surely has to at least have a few goes at each before one is satisfied that one is a tailwheel demon

In fact crosswinds was the worst part as we had absolutely gorgeous weather for a what felt like couple of weeks and he wouldn't sign me off until he had seen a reasonable approach with something a bit challenging.

I agree with the ground handling comments. I nearly looped by not putting in enough into wind aileron