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Old 6th Mar 2014, 22:28
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Now see what a can of worms you've opened, great fun isn't it?
Well yeah, it is.

I take your point about broken nosewheels, the AAIB reports must contain broken nosewheels more than other type of accident. Which surely shows that trikes are harder to fly than tailwheels...

Joking aside if you sit at any grass strip watching the world go idley by then there's no doubt that the odd taildragger you see will be plonked down on average better than your average trike. I'm an old glider bore and take great pride in my landings. They aren't always what I want them to be but to me they are the skillful part of hand flying; you can usually see if a pilot has a good set of hands by the way they land. If I can nail a good landing in the right place at the right speed then I go home a happy man. It seems that a lot of flyers just appear to throw them at the ground without any empathy for the machine. Still, I'm not exactly a three thousand hour man so my opinion doesn't really count for much.
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