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I've got an old Citabria (Champion) with the oleo gear. They called it the "no bounce" gear and believe me you can't get that thing to bounce even if you try.

So you're applying for a job as an airline pilot and they find out you got your ATP with 50 hours multi in an Aircam with no tailwheel endorsement? Is this a realistic scenario? Something to lay awake at night worrying about?

Not sure if it's legal to visit South Dakota without stopping at Wall Drug.

OP said it was a Decathlon which has a different wing. It may have the same angle of incidence but it has a slightly higher stall speed. Not sure why his instructor wants him to learn wheel landings first, in most small GA taildraggers there's never any actual need to do wheel landings other...

Don't know if there is much to add but the Citabria spring gear is one of the harder ones to get in the beginning. You just can't feel when it touches because it's too soft and it has no damping on the rebound once you've pushed it too far. You'll get it eventually, as said one day it just...

If you mount it on a tire (or tires) for any distance make frequent stops and check it, it's going to move around. Last one I did was nose up with mount frame bolted to a simple custom built wooden pallet and everything, including baffles, still in tact with straps from the prop flange securing...

He must have been embarrassed because I don't think he did a go around, he just left.

I have a picture of the J3 Cub I learned to fly in after it got hit by a tornado in 1971. It looked like a wadded up ball of wire and tissue paper yet it is still on the register and flying to this day. Pretty much anything can be fixed, sometimes people start with just a data plate.

and while we're at it, what's Google?

From a scientific perspective they started doing these checks when they switched to UL94 so there is no comparative data for 100LL use. It would appear that they are jumping to conclusions based on a very small number of anomalies.

That winding road to Hana can start to feel as grueling as a New York to Paris flight by the time you get done with the entire round trip.

It makes you wonder what people, a few thousand years ago, thought when this unexpectedly happened and they had no idea why.

A little bit of last minute advice for anyone who drives to see the eclipse and gets caught in a massive traffic snarl afterwards: If you are using Google Maps it may announce that it has found a faster route. What it won't tell you is that it is 250 miles longer and there are no gas stations on...

and we are reading them

Interesting, this just popped up on youtube. In 1973 scientists used a modified Concorde to chase an eclipse and stayed in the totality shadow for 74 minutes

That kind of harks back to the days when the pilot was sitting behind the wing like a Jenny or a Stearman but is also apt for a J3 Cub. You just get tossed around a lot more back there and every pitch or yaw movement is visually apparent. You don't get so much of it when you're sitting pretty...

Well, since the engine is tugging on the airframe having the bolts face aft wouldn't do much for you anyway. At least this way if a nut comes off you have a chance of seeing it when checking the oil. When is the last time you had your head crammed up under the panel looking at the backside of...

Is that not true? Is there someone else who can take it away or issue it? And it's not "flying at the will of the administrator" there is a defined process which in this case has been followed. I take it that you don't agree with the results but that's not how it works.

Let's see, there was a charge, a hearing, a decision, an appeal...so if he doesn't win there's no freedom? Does the fact that you have to have a license to operate an aircraft and that there is an authority that issues and governs the regulatory aspects of it impinge on your "freedom"? Explain...

Yea well, there's no prosecution here. All they want to do is suspend the license THAT THEY GAVE HIM for sixty days. If he wants to get another license, from somebody else well, good luck on that Trent.