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Old 14th Oct 2014, 19:31
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Tailwheel rating for a Turbulent

To my mixed delight and alarm, I have just bought my first aircraft: a Druine Turbulent. However, I don't know how to fly it. I've probably got about 80-90 hours on spamcans (trained on Tommies) with an hour on an Eurostar (trigear) and 40 minutes of aerobatics on a Super-Decathlon which I didn't quite land.

I've read suggestions that the best aircraft to do a tailwheel conversion on in order to transition to the Turbulent would be a Thruster, which is unfortunately a microlight. On the other hand as I understand it there's no fixed number of hours to do a tailwheel rating, would it be possible to do most of the training on a thruster then get signed of on a group A aircraft?

Does anybody have any suggestions for good flying schools? I'm based in Mid Wales and will have to travel - so within reason it doesn't make much difference how far.
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