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Old 18th Apr 2013, 21:04
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Actually, on most aeroplanes, you have to reach an insane tail-high attitude to get a prop strike (there are exceptions and of course rough strips and bouncy u/c contribute). The bigger danger, perhaps, is losing directional control at the higher speed of a wheeler.

I flew tailwheel aeroplanes for well over 30 years, mostly short aeros flights and into short strips, so many landings per hour in all sorts of winds, runway gradients and surfaces, and approach / climbout obstructions. I've yet to groundloop. And as I haven't flown for many months now, and probably won't again, I might have got away with it!
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