Of tail draggers and others
Chris Scott
"...the A320 (and, presumably, the B737) is considerably less demanding on take-off and landing than many smaller types, particularly the tail-draggers...."
Off topic. I,too, have -and still do -flown those, not the Pitts, but all Cubs and Zlins... On this subject, a Twin Otter is in my experience, a lot more of a handful than a Dak (even during taxi ).
The argument that they are more difficult to land (and I've never seen one do in the Ham conditions we are talking about ), doesn't -shouldn't - allow us to criticize the handling of that landing... only discuss the choice of persisting in attempting to land when the situation became less and less manageable.
My argument is that
1/- we weren't there in those conditions
2/- a careful observation of the origin of the difficulties they encountered, i.e the movement of the aircraft to the left at time-frame 30s, while the wings were level, with a drift angle that - until this moment - perfectly controlled the centerline tracking, should teach us some humility.