8 hours just doing tarmac and cross winds sounds overkill to me
And wheel-landings in that time, too.
I guess it depends on the individual. For me - a pilot of average ability with around 60 hours (as I had then) - it was very necessary. I was really struggling with wheel-landings after 5 or 6 hours of working on them.
At the time, it didn't seem like overkill at all - and looking back on it now, my opinion hasn't changed. But I'd like to think that if my tail-wheel experience could be completely erased and I had to do it all again, but with nearly a couple of thousand hours behind me, it would take
far less than 8 hours!
FFF
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