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[Timebuilder]

Find an instructor friend with a Cherokee Six. Get the signoff, and you're done.

 

[English]

Or, if you have any C172 time, find an instructor with a Cessna R172K (Hawk XP), 210 HP, and get the endorsement that way. Cheap and easy.

 

[embdrvr]

you just have to observe his/her flying. i did one in a tail dragger a few years back and it was my first time in a conventional gear airplane.

Hmmm....this sounds like something that is legal but not smart.
I have a fair amount of time in taildraggers including some experience in the squirellier ones like the Pitts, Christen Eagles, and even a few times in warbirds. I've had to take the controls away from someone that would have converted a taildragger into a ball of crumpled aluminum. If JetDreamer found himself in the same situation I suspect that he'd have an accident on his record. When I was a CFI I used to do a lot of BFR's for taildragger owners because I was the only guy with a lot of tailwheel time. There is nothing difficult about becoming a competent taildragger pilot but I really suggest you become comfortable in them before giving a BFR. Just my .02

 

[Jet_Dreamer]

embdrvr- this ride in the tail dragger was with a good friend and i had never been in the type before. it was a bfr and a bit of flight instruction for me. never continued with the tail dragger because i didnt care for it.

i certainly would NEVER jump in a unfamiliar airplane with someone i dont know. just doesnt sound smart.

 

[embdrvr]

embdrvr- this ride in the tail dragger was with a good friend and i had never been in the type before. it was a bfr and a bit of flight instruction for me. never continued with the tail dragger because i didnt care for it.

i certainly would NEVER jump in a unfamiliar airplane with someone i dont know. just doesnt sound smart.

So who was really getting the BFR?
People you know can kill you just as easily as a stranger.

Just curious. What didn't you like about flying taildraggers?

 

[Jet_Dreamer]

embdrvr- i was giving the bfr in my friend's greatlakes. cfi doing a favor for a cfi. i didnt care for the feel of the airplane during landing, a little squirrley. anyways i enjoy my tricycle landing gear airplanes a lot better.

 

[avbug]

That's okay. Not everybody is comfortable when one takes away the training wheel.

Conventioal gear isn't squirrely, it just reveals deficiencies that the nosewheel tends to hide. So long as one is content to live with that, it's no problem at all.