tailwheel flying basics

Basic tailwheel flying and endorsement requirements

[@MrAmericanworkmule]

Thank you, I learned more in 25 minutes listening to you about flying a taildragger then I ever learned flying a tricycle gear airplane...... real comprehensive and quick.. like the old school way of learning of how to fly... with the think operating hand books and practical experience... now in an emergency seems to me first thing pilots do is get out a book and look it up... what happened to get your stinking head outside of the Cockpit and fly the airplane first.... Now they cry to A.T.C. that just wastes precious recovery time and tells them to switch frequency's as they spin into the ground... 1. Aircraft control 2. Navigate 3 communicate... best focus on one first and for a darn good while more mandatory hood time.

[@lowifrles9813]

Excellent instructional video! Currently doing tailwheel training after more than 1K hrs of flying. Should have done this much earlier in my flying career.

[@josephgumm6836]

Thank You for sharing your knowledge! I have started Aerobatic training to enhance my piloting skills, but now I am interested, yet fearful, of tail wheel landings. Your video is very helpful, and has encouraged me to work toward a Tail Wheel endorsement.

[@talon1686]

Excellent presentation and thank you for putting it together and publishing.

[@Gallopingthrulife]

Thank you so much for sharing this information. It is really HELPFUL to me who is new to this. Your graphics were super. Thanks for keeping the explanations simple and relevant. Great job! Hope you will make more. P.S. Don't get discouraged by the 'know it alls'. I doubt they made a video.

[@iimbyrd]

Gallopingthrulife Thanks,the most important part of tailwheel flying is attitude. attitude of the aircraft. Keep looking outside and keep it straight down the runway. thanks again, Jim

[@Acc0rd79]

I'm in flight school right now and they use a Citabria which has made it tricky for me on a few take offs and landings! Good video:) Sometimes I wish I would have gone to a school with a Piper or Cessna but they said flying those will be a joke once I am good at the tail wheel.

[@mikearakelian6368]

I got lucky and did all my tailwheel tra. In a E B18! Had fun and flew 135...but had little trouble in a citabria 1 hr tra. Like the E18 better!!

[@playnine999]

Also, tread is not the distance between the wheels. That's called the track. The tread is the distance between the impressions on a single wheel.

[@iimbyrd]

right you are, the 2 were pretty much interchangeable where I grew up. Thanks

[@Randoskie]

Very Informative, I recently got a tail wheel sport plane and I'm needing some help understanding the dif landing characteristics from a trike gear.

[@horacesawyer2487]

Best all around ground school skill-set-in-a-box I have seen for generalized tailwheel aircraft basic instruction! Jim, where do you teach?

[@michaeldelvalle8104]

Great video and great explanations! A lot of this applies to flying tricycle geared airplanes too. You covered basic airmanship principles for stabilized approaches well.

[@raylandalton4555]

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[@axtonmichael3724]

@Raylan Dalton flixportal :P

[@raylandalton4555]

@Axton Michael Thank you, I went there and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :) Appreciate it !!

[@axtonmichael3724]

@Raylan Dalton you are welcome :D

[@abbieamavi]

Great comprehensive aide!! I get to fly a J3 tomorrow!!

[@davidringo1399]

good instruction and advice,.. Thank you sir

[@AlanTheBest97]

In my country tailwheel is standard flight training. Very difficult to keep centerline.

[@piersvonrexhaus3007]

great video! thanks for posting.

[@MrTaylorcraft]

Well done! Good informative video!

[@adammuery7203]

Thanks for putting this together

[@KetiEBL]

Excellent !! Thank you alot !

[@iimbyrd]

Thanks, Maybe a little slow in parts. Jim

[@dkoz8321]

17:45 "On most aircraft prop will not hit ground if main wheels are on the ground.."" I call dangerous , stupid bovine scatology on that. Too much stick forward, with mains on ground, or accidental brake press a little too much, and prop will hit the ground. The mains act as a pivot.

[@NETBotic]

you can give Sporty's and King a run for the money

[@iimbyrd]

Thanks, learned in a tailwheel in the 50's

[@coolhari2000]

A run for the mooney perhaps ? heheheh

[@trading-university.]

Superb! thanks

[@iimbyrd]

Thanks it was fun making and all my students are asked to use it

[@trading-university.]

I am just doing my tailwheel conversion (from trikes) and my instructor gets all his prospective students to watch this!! thanks again

[@iimbyrd]

Thanks, and I am glad it is being used by other than my students Jim

[@MrAlwaysBlue]

All food stuff.

[@alaskanalain]

I have been cheating, especially with crosswind landings. I have floats and land into the wind all the time. ;)

[@playnine999]

Uh what?! Force does **NOT** equal mass times acceleration squared. That's WRONG. You should stop teaching inaccurate information. F=MA . Period.

[@iimbyrd]

Right again, I got that from somewhere on the net. Goes to show you that everything on the net is not correct Thanks again

[@iimbyrd]

The basic premise is still correct - Start correcting a turn quickly, before it gets out of hand - That is not inaccurate information - that is imperitive to prevent an accident

[@ThomasFreundl]

As someone mentioned above - Force = Mass x Acceleration, I think somebody combined this with Kinetic Energy = 1/2 Mass x Acceleration^2. Nice video though.

[@ThomasFreundl]

+dutchrjen - Sorry... My bad, I think it was late at night when I wrote that. Which I have to laugh about because I use 1/2 m*v^2 all the time... lol