{"id":4921,"date":"2018-07-26T16:47:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T23:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.mechadigital.net\/?p=4921"},"modified":"2021-08-26T20:37:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:37:52","slug":"210-whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/210-whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"#210 What’s in a Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I gradually began to offer Tailwheel Flight Instruction, an issue raised its head:\u00a0 You see, not everyone who wanted to receive tailwheel dual and to improve their skills, needed to gain a Tailwheel Endorsement.\u00a0 Some already had such an endorsement.\u00a0 So I re-did my syllabus for what I now called a \u201cMaster Class\u201d.\u00a0Since this course was designed for someone who already was familiar with tailwheel aircraft, I left out much of the time that we\u2019d previously spent doing three-point landings and wheel landings.\u00a0But I put in some maneuvers that were new, skill building and not likely to have been practiced.\u00a0 Included in this new bag of maneuvers were, depending on opportunity, the Landing in a Turn, Slaloms, The Dead Stick Landing, an intro to mountain flying,<\/h3>\n

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\u00a0Landing in a Turn\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The view from the cockpit.\u00a0 A dead stick approach and landing started from approx. 8,000 feet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In formation with Phil Comingore’s Cub over Madras.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mountain Flying:\u00a0 Three Fingered Jack in the Cascade Mountain range west of Sisters (photo by Brittany Reinbolt)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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formation flying and a few other items that I kept in the Tailwheel Endorsement course.\u00a0 For example, I realized that pilots had, for years, been using a rather goofy knot to tie their airplanes down.\u00a0 So I included knot-tying.\u00a0 The same pilots who could start a vehicle by \u201cpopping the clutch\u201d, were familiarized with hand-propping, a skill that I realized all pilots needed to be familiar with but with which most had no skill at.<\/h3>\n
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David Ives, master of the Cinch knot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jamie Klaes props the Cessna 140<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, now that my courses are no longer available to Ladies Love Taildraggers scholarship winners, all hope is certainly not lost.\u00a0 After all, the cadre of female flight instructors providing instruction for this wonderful program have their own bags o\u2019 tricks and have plenty to teach the pilot looking for more than a conventional tailwheel endorsement, spin endorsement or upset training.\u00a0 And, until aviation is truly sex-blind, I have to say that this move to female flight instructors is probably a good one.<\/h3>\n

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I\u2019ve had plenty of flyers ask me for instruction in a particular area.\u00a0 Scholarship winners can do the same.\u00a0 Their all-female flight instructors have tons of experience and can, no doubt, be prevailed upon to share some of their knowledge.<\/h3>\n

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So it doesn\u2019t matter what we call the course.\u00a0 I started calling some of my classes \u201cMaster Classes\u201d.\u00a0 I think it might be important to define the word \u201cMaster\u201d a bit.\u00a0 Years ago, my then-wife told me that I was making a mistake when I told her or anyone else, for that matter, that something was \u201ceasy\u201d.<\/h3>\n

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\u201cIt might be easy for YOU,\u201d she stated, \u201cbut it\u2019s not necessarily easy for someone just learning it.” \u00a0BINGO!\u00a0 That\u2019s so true and so important.\u00a0 And not for the reasons you might think.\u00a0 When I see \u201cAcme grads\u201d being unable to perform virtually any one-wheel work, I see someone who can\u2019t do something which I believe is really easy.\u00a0If it\u2019s so easy, why do they have so much trouble doing it?\u00a0 Simply because they never practice it.\u00a0 I truly believe that it is easy, but I also believe that practice is necessary to master one-wheel work.<\/h3>\n

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(Note: Slaloms and Multiple landings are demonstrated in videos on www.tailwheelersjournal.com)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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