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Old 6th February 2003 | 16:00
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FlyingForFun

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I did my tail-wheel conversion on the Super Cub, and it's a fabulous machine. Still never flown a Cub, but I'm sure it would be perfect to convert onto.

The most important thing when doing a tail-dragger conversion, IMHO, is the quality of the instructor. If your instructor doesn't intend to teach you wheel-landings as well as 3-pointers, go somewhere else. If your instructor doesn't have at least 100 hours of tail-wheel time, including lots of recent time, go somewhere else. I say this having ignored that advice when I did my conversion, and paid the penalty. I used an extremely good instructor - I would recommend her to anyone doing a PPL, and I intend to do my IMC rating with her. But she'd only recently done a tail-wheel conversion herself, and she was not the right person to be teaching me those skills. So much so that, after getting signed off and building my Super Cub time up to around 10 hours, I then went to hire a Super Cub from another school, and needed a further 7 hours instruction before they'd let me hire their planes. Yes - 7 hours on a type I was already current on. It wasn't wasted at all - I learnt far more in those 7 hours than I had on my original check-out.

I'd also recommend having a read of The Compleat Taildragger Pilot by Harvey S Plourde - an excellent book which explains everything that's going on with very simple diagrams, and only goes into the details of the maths in an appendix.

Apart from that, have fun! If you search back to around October 2001, you might find a post where I described my first Super Cub flight, which should inpsire you!

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