Well, Beagler, couldn't agree more that the rudder is a hugely underused control surface by most folk! Having done my original flying on the C150, fortunately well taught, my conversion onto the dear old Chipmunk reinforced the correct use of rudder. Although I was fortunate enough to fly from a grass field, we were invariably required to fly 3-pointers rather than wheelers, so the crab, flare and yaw technique became ingrained. But I agree that if you don't get it quite right, the only possible solution is quickly to adopt the 'wing down' into wind technique to stop the aeroplane drifting off the side of the runway! Or to have flown a 'wheeler' in the first place. Incidentally, the old chaps who used to fly Lancs were amazed that the RAF BBMF used to try and 3-point theirs.
Summer grass, tailwheels and Gypsy engines.......I think we agree, chum!!
(Edited for a couple of spooling miskates!)
[This message has been edited by BEagle (edited 28 August 2000).]