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Ben_Chiu Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 7. "RE: First Tail Dragger Expereince" 04-16-03, 20:16z  Greetings Jerry: > An Aeronca Champ All of my tailwheel experience was in a Champ. The hardest part for me was getting used to the rudder pedals not being hard linked together. I'm used to applying a little pressure on both pedals to keep the airplane from wandering. When both pedals pushed to the floor my first time out, I was surprised to say the least! > On the sixth landing - I was a little long and used the final 1/4 of the > runway before getting slowed enough to turn off. BAD MOVE - that end of > the runway was extremely soft (wet and muddy) and we got stuck. Couldn't > push it by hand, CFI got his van stuck trying to pull the plane out - I > got my car stuck trying to pull his van out. An hour later, with > judicious use of jacks and long boards, we finally got everything back > on hard surface and now only have to repair the runway Sounds like you need those oversized tires that John Mooney has on his Citabria for landing on gravel bars! Thanks for the story, Jerry. Please keep us up to date on your progress. Ben -= VPC OffLine Reader 2.1 =- Registered to: Ben Chiu -OLR.PL v1.80- Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      First Tail Dragger Expereince    jerryrosie       04-13-03              RE: First Tail Dragger Expereince    TomParsons       04-14-03       1            RE: First Tail Dragger Expereince    jerryrosie       04-16-03       2                 RE: First Tail Dragger Expereince    vgbaron       04-16-03       3                      RE: First Tail Dragger Expereince    jerryrosie       04-16-03       5                 RE: First Tail Dragger Expereince    WScofield       04-16-03       4                      RE: First Tail Dragger Expereince    jerryrosie       04-16-03       6                           RE: First Tail Dragger Expereince    WScofield       04-17-03       8                                RE: First Tail Dragger Expereince    jerryrosie       04-17-03       9                 RE: First Tail Dragger Expereince    Ben_Chiu       04-16-03       7                      RE: First Tail Dragger Expereince    jerryrosie       04-17-03       10         RE: First Tail Dragger Expereince    John_M       04-22-03       11

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