40 Year Flyer:
I was only kidding about x / wind landings.
My argument is pilots who are taught on tailwheel airplanes are by definition more skilled in aircraft handling. Cross wind landings are no more problem with a tail wheel airplane than a nose wheel airplane if you are compentent on the type you fly.
To better explain my position on this issue when I learned to fly we did not have nose wheel airplanes to learn on. During my career as a pilot I have accummulated over ten thousand hours of tailwheel flying over half of which is on Beech 18 and DC3 / C117 airplanes and mostly in the far north/ Arctic on unprepared strips.
X/ wind landings to us are no more problem than with a nose wheel airplane, in fact I would rather land a DC3 in a x/ wind beyond its demonstrated limits than say the PBY.
The reason for starting this thread was to better understand the issues of tailwheel vs nose wheel flying.
So lets keep discussing the issues.
Chow:
Cat Driver: