Need tail wheel endorsement

What's the deal with "landing on hard surface"? That the surface you must learn on as thats where you will make many of your landings. It's not that big a deal if a competent instructor checks you out. Any instructor who insists on a grass runway is not well trained and should be avoided.
 
I agree. There's not much to landing a tailwheel airplane on grass. That's what they were designed for. Dealing with one on pavement is a different kettle of fish.

My tailwheel instructor suckered me on this. We went through all the pain and I finally solo'd on pavement. Right after that, he said that it was time for me to be "tested." This meant a flight to a nearby grass strip where there was a breakfast buffet near the field. He made it sound like a real challenge. I put it down there with no trouble and immediately knew that I had been had. That's what comes from having a helicopter cop as a flight instructor. This guy was also the helicopter pilot on the old Dallas TV show back in the seventies. He owned the helicopter that was used on the show.

Do your training on pavement and then grass will be no trouble whatsoever. Landing a taildragger on grass is really fun.

Makes me want to go find a grass strip tomorrow morning.
 
I tried him, but he doesn't have a plane right now. I'm not having much luck.

checkout flying tigers aviation in rayville Louisiana. They have plenty of tailwheel airplanes available for teaching and rental afterwards. talk to Phillip Krasner, he is a CFI there with experience outside of teaching. Nice guy too boot
 
checkout flying tigers aviation in rayville Louisiana. They have plenty of tailwheel airplanes available for teaching and rental afterwards. talk to Phillip Krasner, he is a CFI there with experience outside of teaching. Nice guy too boot

I will check that out, thanks.
 
checkout flying tigers aviation in rayville Louisiana. They have plenty of tailwheel airplanes available for teaching and rental afterwards. talk to Phillip Krasner, he is a CFI there with experience outside of teaching. Nice guy too boot

Thanks for the suggestion. I called down there and used Craig. I got some excellent training and my endorsement...all is good now.
 
Whoops, I re read the OP. You already bought a taildragger, although I don't know what a Sonex is(I will google and learn about it soon.) Did your tailwheel training prepare you for your own plane?
 
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