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Old 7th Mar 2015, 14:43
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Crash one
 
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This is the sort of unconscious accuracy that is required.
It is a pity we don't have instructors like Chuck in the UK since all the wartime taildraggering guys have gone & now everything is hyped up to some black art state.

Sorry, cannot agree with any of that. You also need to make some new friends. Plenty about, with a massive skill set in landing everything with either a tail wheel, or a tricycle set.
Not asking for agreement, my opinion only, from watching the turnover of newly qualified instructors at my local plus a couple of other schools.
It is also my opinion that the syllabus has been gradually watered down, in the name of safety of course, to the point of, don't go there cos there be dragons, rather than let the student see the dragon and learn how to deal with it.
Just my own opinion, nobody has to agree.
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