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Old 20th August 2006 | 19:37
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Wombat35
 
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In this day and age, why waste your time and money mate!!

If you want tail wheel time go fly a Tiger Moth or a Chipmunk! Good fun, but it wont get you a job!
See here's the thing, Amos I'll try once and reason with you.

Most of the guys reading this post are not going to be at the level of going to the QANTAS interview next week.

Yes I agree that it's wont get you a job with QANTAS, however I do think that it makes you a better pilot during the stage where you are still learning your craft say <500 hrs.

Most of my students really benefit from learning how to operate a Tailwheel aircraft and find that after returning to conventional types if nothing else the focus on attitude flying gives them more confidence and brings more accuracy to their everyday flying.

This should help them get the next job, well I at least hope it does.

Have you every flown a taildragger?.... and "flown in" doesn’t count.

Cheers

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