>>>All this talk about rules and regulations excites me, and makes me proud to be a member of a group who end up so paranoid they lose track of the simple fact tail wheel airplanes were the norm at one time....<<<<
Chuck
Very true, but as someone running a tailwheel group, I've been appalled at the lack of basic landing skill of nose-wheel trained pilots.
One has taken over 25 hours to be sent solo and another 15 hours and even now they still fail to make a decent round-out and touchdown.
I'm not paranoid, and let a lot of basic mistakes go, on the assumption that this is a way of them learning. I've been taken through a wire fence through faulty taxying technique and groundlooped through an inability to recognise a swing on touchdown - oh and these were instructors....
I'm seriously thinking of taking my 'baby' back into sole ownership so if mistakes are made, they are mine. I just can't trust some of the group to do it even half-decently