Have you ever ground-looped a tailwheel?

[jbDC9]

no groundloops yet...

I have maybe 85 hrs or so t/w, mostly Citabrias and haven't done it yet. Came close once though while flying from the back seat... those awful heel brakes tucked in down behind the rudder bars and fenced in by the rudder cables... my shoe got jammed in all that mess, started a nice little swerve, stomped a bit too hard on the brakes with my jammed up feet... I just let go and told the frontseater "you got it!" Worked out okay, but I hate flying it from the back seat.

The one I fly is a rental machine, having a hard life lately. Maybe a year ago an instructor with student planted it a bit hard on a wheel landing and spanked the prop. oops. And again last week, another low time CFI wheeled it on, stomped on the brakes, stood it on it's nose, spanked the prop again. At least it didn't go on it's back...

 

[U of I Tweak]

C 120

Well my whopping 80 hours in a Cessna 120 have been ground loop free. I have had several wheel landings that have counted as five or six landings in one trip down the runway. Nothing beats the feeling of a greased wheel landing.

I was in a Cessna Centurion when it was intentionally groundlooped...

 

[Pipeliner606]

Re: C 120

"I have had several wheel landings that have counted as five or six landings in one trip down the runway."

Heh, heh, heh, I've done that myself. Always wondered if you can log each bounce as a landing, lol!!

 

[Traumahawk]

Re: Re: C 120

"I have had several wheel landings that have counted as five or six landings in one trip down the runway."

Heh, heh, heh, I've done that myself. Always wondered if you can log each bounce as a landing, lol!!

You kiddin'? Thats how us broke pilots get current!

 

[mar]

For Pipeliner606

Northern Air Cargo

Headquarters: Anchorage
Based: Fairbanks

Safe flying.

 

[Pipeliner606]

Kind of a Coincidence!!

Mar, I had a good friend in High School who's father was an Avionics tech for Northern Air Cargo. Cant remember his father's name though. I believe he lived in Anchorage. My friend used to fly up there and see him about once a year. I remember him telling me his dad worked on DC-6's up there.