by Toby » Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:04 am
You could try moving to a low wing trainer with a tailwheel. If down the track you want to fly a warbird. Or you could try moving to a mid wing sport aerobatic aircraft.
Low wing warbirds need to be kept flying fast or they will stall and usually roll or spin. Quite tricky!
Aerobatic aircraft are lots of fun and usually have no bad habits.
Tailwheels are interesting and tricky to master properly, most pilots take a long time to learn to takeoff properly with them as they often don't pay attention to the basics, and just gun it off the mark and hope for the best!
Usually a little bit of right rudder held in from the start, slowly increase throttle, with full backstick until there is enough speed, then gently let the tail come up, watch out for the little nose waggle, (due gyroscopic effect), then as it accellerates, gentle back pressure to unstick the aircraft and climb out!
Most early aircraft were tailwheel, so if you are interested in scale aircraft you might need to master the tailwheel. Also a lot of the modern aerobatic aircraft are tail wheel.
