Is tailwheel endorsement really necessary?

[Say Again Over]

That's probably because you can't fly a tail wheel aircraft

How could I make a statement that my experience hadn't helped me unless I had experience?

 

[RightPedal]

Let's be fair: flying them is no great challenge. It's those few moments between flying and driving that build character.

:laugh: No truer words spoken

 

[Alex429595]

It's like a helicopter rating...fun but not necessary for the typical fixed wing professional.

If you have limited time and/or money, spend it on something more directly career or family enhancing (instructor rating, ATP written, etc.)

However, you can get a tailwheel endorsement for well under a thousand dollars, whereas a helicopter rating is going to run you a whole lot of money, most likely more than you spent on your private. Here at UND a helicopter rating is 18,000 dollars, because they stick you in the bell Jet Ranger (which is turbine) for a bunch of the hours. No one actually pays for it themselves, the Army or Airforce usually picks up the tab.

 

[81Horse]

Can you say you're a driver if you can't drive a vehicle with a manual transmission?

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[Lead Sled]

Can you say you're a driver if you can't drive a vehicle with a manual transmission?

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Why yes, I do believe that you could say that.

'Sled

 

[bugchaser]

You want to be a pilot or just somebody with a ticket?

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Great post right pedal.

I will also say that some quality tw experience will make you a better pilot. I can always tell when I am flying with someone with some tw time. It's hard to sit through some peoples landings in the jet when they have no sense of where the wind is coming from or apparently how to properly correct for it.
Lord knows I have a lot to learn about aviation, but one thing I did pick up in thousands of hours of ag flying is how to properly correct for crosswinds.

 

[Metro752]

It's really hard for me to believe that young people graduate with a college DEGREE IN AVIATION as a pilot and they can not land three-quarters of the airplanes at Oshkosh.

Any such program should include a tailwheel checkout and a 10-hour course in aerobatics.

and when those punk b1tches talk sh1t about it doesnt matter that they can't fly, you know deep down inside they wish they could and they are losers.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

For reference I do have my tailwheel endorsement.
But that's not the only way to learn how to properly use rudder. Spend some time in a Jetstream 31 with no autopilot and no yaw damp, you will learn real quick how to use rudder. That or how to mop up the back of the plane after your passengers start revisiting their lunch.

 

[mcjohn]

hmmmm....Yaw dampener? Never heard of that. Jets have some sort of "rudder autopilot" on landings?! Weird. Pardon my ignorance.

 

[Say Again Over]

I can always tell when I am flying with someone with some tw time.

Lol. :laugh:

 

[Tram]

Spend some time in a Jetstream 31 with no autopilot and no yaw damp, you will learn real quick how to use rudder.

Hehe.. The good ole 'Stream..

mcjohn - I dunno if your serious, as you never can tell on this board, butttt... http://www.boeing-727.com/Data/systems/infoyawdampers.html

Let's be fair: flying them is no great challenge. It's those few moments between flying and driving that build character.

Yeh, I almost said that..

 

[414Flyer]

Shorts 330 is also one that needs proper rudder usage to stay coordinated.

I used to be a feet on the floor pilot too, until I did air med flights in the SW in twin cessnas. The company was very big on rudder control in flight to keep the plane straight, so med crews did not get sick in turbulence.

 

[81Horse]

... Spend some time in a Jetstream 31 with no autopilot and no yaw damp, you will learn real quick how to use rudder. That or how to mop up the back of the plane after your passengers start revisiting their lunch.

Amen. When I flew with flat-footed FOs on the J31, I used to ask them to watch the wingtip sketching little ovals on the horizon; only active pressure on the pedals would quiet that motion down.

 

[Tram]

Yeh, it's amazing how little pressure it takes to keep the tail from dancing..

 

[Cat Driver]

Interesting reading this stuff about the use of rudder.

You wont live long flying one of these if you do not know how to use rudder.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e353/ChuckEllsworth/DSCF4393-b.jpg

 

[81Horse]

Now that's an airplane.

And a boat.

 

[Cat Driver]

" Now that's an airplane.

And a boat. "

Yup, and you had better understand the use of rudder.