#21 The Dead Stick Landing
The Tailwheeler’s Journal #21 The Deadstick Landing If you practice this maneuver you will be branded as “nuts” or “a lunatic” by all those careful, conservative pilots who make up…
The Tailwheeler’s Journal #21 The Deadstick Landing If you practice this maneuver you will be branded as “nuts” or “a lunatic” by all those careful, conservative pilots who make up…
A couple of years ago I was flying with one of my most talented students. She did something that irritated me. I don’t even remember what it was; perhaps cutting…
The Tailwheeler’s Journal No. 19 Correcting the correction What's so challenging about tailwheel flying? Most pilots will tell you that it's simply keeping the durn thing straight on the ground…
The Tailwheeler’s Journal 18 “Whuffos Those who have read “Brian’s Flying Book” are familiar with the term, “whuffo”. It’s a term borrowed from our skydiving brethren and refers to those…
The Tailwheeler’s Journal #17 “Hold the Stick Back” or “prop-smacking, one more time” When all those airplane manufacturers started building tricycle gear airplanes they accomplished their main goal: They made…
The Tailwheeler’s Journal #16 Humility During World War 2 a young fighter pilot shot down two Bf 109’s. Upon landing his P51 he was immediately surrounded by his squadron mates…
The Tailwheeler’s Journal # 15 Prop-smacking, part 2 In the preceding Journal, we pointed out how difficult it is to ding the prop while at full takeoff power with lots…
The Tailwheeler’s Journal #14 Prop-smacking, part 1 I fly with a lot of people who have little or no tailwheel time. What do many of these pilots have in common?…
We had a few outtakes left over from our production of “Tailwheeler's Journal: The Movie”. In one of them, I jokingly scolded Janaé, saying, “don't you know that you're always…
"I’ve always felt that the cure for this phenomenon was the correctly applied application of neutral rudder right before touchdown. I admit that it’s tricky and complicates the already complicated process of the crosswind landing."