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Old 8th Mar 2014, 14:17
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Somebody above mentioned that they usually see tail-dragger pilots landing nicely whereas tricycle pilots tend to find "other ways" of landing. If this is evident of a tricycle trained pilot flying in a tricycle aircraft than it is surely something that proper flight instruction on a tricycle aircraft should be able to fix. So in summary it's all the flight instructors fault! Wouldn't a higher barrier to entry for flight instruction be a better solution to assbackwardsness than using an old ass... erm errr aeroplane?
500, you're missing something. I already made the point that a good instructor can teach correct landing technique in a nose wheel aeroplane. The problem is, nose wheel aeroplanes will (to some extent) tolerate very poor landing technique, the like of which is all too commonly seen at GA fields, because pilots (humans!) are lazy. One day, the nose leg gives up the unequal struggle (check out the huge number of noseleg collapses in AAIB accident reports each month. These incidents rarely cause injury, but they are very expensive to fix - shock loaded engine etc - and add greatly to our insurance premiums).

Tailwheel aeroplanes will not tolerate sloppy landing technique. So tail wheel pilots tend to land correctly.
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