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Old 8th Feb 2007, 21:50
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Wide Body.

I know the school FFF is talking about reasonably well.

They will solo you from zero hour in a taildragger in about the same time as in a spamcan but obviously the wind has to be acceptable.

What they aim to do before they sign you off is get you to a level where they are happy for you to take their supercub anywhere within the range in the tanks. Within that distance is a > 12000 ft high mountain and fields with summer DAs close to 10,000 ft. Nasty winds are common.

They also make you have a check out with an instructor if you haven't flown the supercub in 21 days.

Other flying schools in the area will not touch a taildragger because if somebody bends one the insurance for the whole rental fleet will be pulled. It's in the States, not the UK, and they need to protect their business. However, they will also rent you an aerobatic biplane for competition, if they think you are up to it that is. Took 18 hours dual for me to get checked out for competition, maybe others could do it faster - if they could find somebody who would rent them the plane.

So a different country, and different flying from what a UK renter might want to be trained for. They are very, very good and know what they are doing.
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