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Old 18th Apr 2014, 22:33
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300hrWannaB
 
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All tailweelers have an innate dislike of tarmac runways, but they can prove to be illuminating. I shall admit to coming out of hibernation this week, and did my compulsory 3 t/o and landings prior to carting the family off on a jolly.
My circuit session was at a local hard runway as our grass place doesn't let us do circuits.
I thought that I was as rough as an amateur, despite having clocked up 250 hours on this plane. After my second squirrely landing I twigged that I was kicking off drift, but laying down the wrong ailerons. All because the runway I took off from was 20 degrees different to the one I was landing at.

Not all tailwheel aircraft are going to bite you. Some will teach you how to fly.
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