The Tailwheeler\u2019s Journal 18
\n\u201cWhuffos<\/p>\n
Those who have read \u201cBrian\u2019s Flying Book\u201d are familiar with the term, \u201cwhuffo\u201d. It\u2019s a term borrowed from our skydiving brethren and refers to those who shake their heads and ask skydivers, \u201cwhuffo you jump outta them airplanes?\u201d. To me it refers to anyone who just doesn\u2019t get it when it comes to our quest to improve our proficiency.<\/p>\n
There are many pilots who fly tailwheel airplanes and can\u2019t perform a wheel landing. There are as many others who never use a forward slip. The list can go on. Whatever the reason given, these folks have reached a certain level of proficiency and choose to go no further.<\/p>\n
We are on opposite sides of the fence. I can usually come up with a reasonable purpose for every maneuver or operation I practice or teach, but even lacking a practical purpose such as emergencies or any other reason, proficiency is good enough for me.<\/p>\n
In my opinion, any maneuver that improves your overall proficiency is worth practicing. You\u2019ll find my book, my articles and my teaching syllabi liberally peppered with such maneuvers. To quote one of my favorite aviation writers, Barry Schiff, \u201cit\u2019s called airmanship, and they don\u2019t teach it anymore.\u201d Well, I try to teach it, and if you want to continue to become a better pilot, stick with me and we\u2019ll work on it together. Whuffos need not apply.<\/p>\n
Happy Swooping,
\nBrian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Tailwheeler\u2019s Journal 18 \u201cWhuffos Those who have read \u201cBrian\u2019s Flying Book\u201d are familiar with the term, \u201cwhuffo\u201d. It\u2019s a term borrowed from our skydiving brethren and refers to those who shake their heads and ask skydivers, \u201cwhuffo you jump outta them airplanes?\u201d. To me it refers to anyone who just doesn\u2019t get it when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}