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Old 11th Dec 2010, 21:18
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I have not flown one, but I've known two people who owned them. Both were not well experienced taildragger pilots, and one of the two fellows had real trouble with it. I'm not knocking the Kitfox, as it was probably more a case of inadequate instruction/caution/experience, but all taildraggers require a bit of extra skill.

If you are properly mentored in the aircraft, and plan to allow yourself 10 to 20 hours of all kinds of flying, and landing in all sorts of different conditions, you'll probably enjoy it, and do fine. You'll certainly be the bette rpilot for it! Don't think that with 60 hours, and no taildragger time, it's a jump in it and go situation though.

People will come on here, and tell you how they mastered taildraggers in an hour or so. They are exaggerating, and perhaps had remarkably compotent taildragger instruction. That is not realistic to expect these days. Go rent a few hours in a taildragger first, to see how you like it. They're wonderful fun, if you're ready...
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