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" [color:"blue"] [/color] Wait, I resemble that remark ? I am one of the few instructors left who gives tailwheel instruction, and I?m leaning the other direction ? I believe that the tailwheel endorsement should become a rating and require an FAA checkride.

Pilots who transition from a nose wheel plane to a tailwheel plane tend to struggle and do indeed need specialized training. Those who learn to fly in a tailwheel plane tend to do much better and have no problem transitioning to a nose wheel plane. "

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Terry the last thing I want to do here is get ito a pi.sing match over flying simple training aircraft, but I'm puzzeled at your comments about teaching a licensed pilot to fly a tail wheel airplane and the need for a type rating on one.

How many hours would this type rating require, assuming you are not doing it on something like a B17?

And please, please ,please explain to me why an instructors endorsement would be needed??

What would be wrong with someone who is a good teacher with lots of tailwheel time doing the check outs as long as the pilot being taught has a pilot license?

Chuck E.

Last edited by Chuck_Ellsworth; 08/03/06 12:44 AM.