Thank You for being humble and sharing the mistakes and some of the normal human problems with learning something new and opposite of what you are used to. Kudos to you. I am a student pilot that struggles to remember all the little things during a landing that make it safe and smooth. My brain is on overload and things are happening really fast. At least to me they are. So I tend to forget the little things like keeping the ailerons into the wind. Thnaks for showing that you are subject to the same overload when given a new high stress task. Even with all your hours and experience it helps me feel ok about myself and my own struggles.

When I started flying back in the seventies I had a 1946 Commonwealth Skyranger 185.It had no flaps so I got to learn slips right off the bat.

tailwheel flying is HUMBLING!!! Ive flow anything from cubs to a T-6 and it is an Art 100%

Keith is a wealth of information and a great instructor. It's super that he will take the time to pass on his skills to you. And to the people watching the videos.

Great series Josh. I’ve been flying jets for several decades and just picked up taildragging again after a 20 year break. I’ve been struggling to get the feel back. Your video helped me plug some holes in what I was doing wrong. Thank you!!

Something that helped me a lot in forward slips and airspeed is going up and doing stalls in them. In a forward slip it spins into the raised wing. Thus, if you stall it in a forward slip it will actually roll level and in a high-wing aircraft will remain in that configuration fully stalled until you release some control forces. Some slippery low-wings will tend to keep rolling over into a stall-spin but either way you have plenty of time to react and, given that you're already high, losing a bunch of altitude in a stall isn't really a bad thing. If I slip to land I'm keeping that airspeed really low.

Hello... and thanks for this your Tail Dragger Training Tutorial! The key in any aviation en devour is reliving the trip after the fact, what went right, wrong and how to overcome and get better! you've taken me back to 1986 and my trip from Madison, WI to Buffalo, NY on a Sunday morning in that restored J3 Cub N3461K under the hat through Chicago TCA with no transponder and my Telex Hand Held, boom mic and push to talk switch velcroed to the stick... Good Memories~Thanks ';-) Mike...

Because I own a tail wheel airplane , this series of videos is by far my favorite you have ever done. Your instructor is very good. He explains all of the fundamentals better than most CFI's.

Got to love tailwheel flying - got some time in a Pawnee and Citabria and always enjoyed the flying. Certainly makes you work your feet on the landings, especially with any kind of cross wind. Love the series Josh and enjoy seeing your (rapid) progress to proficiency.

As always the camera angles were great! I'm really enjoying this series. Tailwheel endorsement is a goal

This is one of the best tail dragger videos I have ever seen. You should do an entire series of tail wheel training videos with this instructor. People would buy this video. He is an excellent CFI. I would like to get time with him in my L-19

Reminded me of my tailwheel training in 1996, Cub, Champ, and Citabria, then flew a Stinson for a while.

I really enjoyed that Josh! I found the same lightbulb came on for me about not giving the stick back on the flare. I'm also glad to see that I'm not the only one who forgets aileron on crosswind landings. :-)

Right chess moves. Seaplane, Tailwheel, Mountain Flying. Cross Training. Filling the quiver with arrows of knowledge. Perfect way to expand your experience. Solid decisions Josh.

Hi, love the videos. I've been flying tailwheel since 1979 mostly dH Chipmunk (I LOVE that aeroplane)but loads of others too including the Super Cub, Tiger Moth, Citabria, L4 (military J3) Cub and others, and a Yak 52 I had a share in (that's nose wheel, but still an exciting machine). I converted onto the Chippy in '79 just after gaining my PPL on the C150, and I still rmember my instructor saying "if you can taxi this aeroplane accurately, you can fly it". That Chipmunk became part of me - it was like growing wings! No other aeroplane was quite the same after I flew that. I wrote a few articles about it (and the L4 and the Yak) in the UK magazine 'Pilot'. Vince

You discovered what every tail wheel pilots eventually discovers with the "dont give it back" technique. I know I did and it was such an awakening. My plane has been down most of the year but should be back in the air in the next week or two. And because I have not flown in a year, I will have to make sure my CFI reminds me of this too.

Love your videos Josh! Very high quality.

Owned a Stinson for 20 years. Every takeoff and landing was a new lesson. I like the "happy feet, happy feet!" Exactly what my instructor always said. Great video. Love the split screen.

DANG! I love taildraggers. I learned to fly in a J3, before “stepping up “ to a 150. A few hours later I had to take a short break (about 20 years) from my flying dream to handle an illness that kept me grounded. Fortunately, I was able to start flying again with the help of a brand new physical when my son asked me to mentor him through the AOPA program being offered at the time. As rusty as I was I began flying again with a really fine young instructor at the FBO. My 1st hour was great and I fell right back into the drill. My instructor said he was amazed at my skills after so long a dry spell from flying. After a bit of hanger flying and with a ride around the patch with theFBO’s owner and resident stunt pilot/tail wheeler the diagnosis was made that it was the tail wheel training and not my superior skills that made the basic pattern work so successful. After 20 years of non flight the 172 the still felt a bit more like driving than flying. DANG! I love taildraggers

Very useful for my landing . Thank YOU!

Great videos. Just watched and never gets old! Thanks

Very cool Josh. Thanks for sharing. A lot of great info there.

Awesome job... just got my tail endorsement last month, but plan at least 5 more hrs with my instructor. It’s is a game changer!! My flying skills have improved so much. Seat of your pants, stick and Rudder, it’s all great! Speaking of other training my wife and I just soloed Sky Diving last weekend. Much more to go. Leonardo da Vinci was so right ! Thx

I took my Gyro training at Taylor (T74) and many times I could radio calls from Lockhart. In this video I head a Taylor call -- brought back some fond memories.

Keith looks like such a good instructor and it's so calm and cool. You look like you are really catching on quick and enjoying all this learning. I wish my dad were alive to explain to me when he flew some tale wheel aircraft. They had a Cessna 195 for air ambulance in the 50s. But it ended up flying Navajos and Barons and King Air.

The tail wheel endorsement was challenging to me too. I was just like you with lots of 172 time and everything is the opposite and don't realize it till you get lots of practice in.

Enjoying this series as I got my Tailwheel endorsement just last year. I find it interesting that when you’re landing you’re forgetting to put in that aileron, and that is because I did the very same thing repeatedly. I mostly did it during wheel landings. Once I understood the point of keeping up the speed to keep the tail flying, not only to keep it up, but to keep the plane from tipping forward from friction induced from the mains, that I got it down. And just like you say, it was a light bulb. I’m also, interested to see how the heel brakes are going to be introduced in the future. My instructor didn’t spend much time on them. He let me play around with them a little on the ramp and then on a few landings and told me I had them! Anyway, happy flying!

Thanks for another good video! You are really making me want to get my tailwheel endorsement!

Because of mechanical issues and building a new house, I have not flown in over a year but my plane is finally out of the shop and was test flown yesterday and all is A-OK. I will now get my BFR and thanks in large part to these tail wheel videos, I feel as if I have been through a great refresher course. I'm looking forward to the next videos in the Super Cub.

I love your 'once the stick comes back, don't give it back' statement. Just keep holding off untill it lands despite your best efforts. Then keep the stick HARD back ALWAYS after touchdown. If it touches down prematurely it will skip or bounce, but that's OK - just hold the stick position and be ready to hold off a bit more for the second touchdown. Don't give it back! If you feel the sink rapidly increase just before touchdown you've held off too high - a touch of power will cushion the landing. If it's a REAL big bounce throw it away. Full power on, ease the stick forward, and go-around unless there's enough runway in front to set up for a second touch down.

stick & rudder at its best.. Great Video sir!

Excellent video. Thank you.

These were great fun to watch. Congratulations on learning to fly a tailwheel airplane (taildragger)! You will forever be a better pilot for it. Even when you get back into the tricycle gear, you will have a better feel for flying the airplane. I am certain that all of us tailwheel pilots were riding right along with you and experiencing every moment. The split screen combo of over the nose and stick and rudder is great. I will watch for the coming installments. :-)

such amazing videos! That man has some great knowledge and experience that I’m very jealous of

Josh, I just want to let you know how much I enjoy your videos. I've adopted the patented Chris Palmer "CLEAR!" into my start ups. Man, the looks I get!!! Anyway, I'm glad you decided to get your Tailwheel endorsement. I received mine shortly after my PPL in 2015. I knew it would improve my skills. It also taught me that I knew very little about airplanes. Even though I've been an A&P for almost three decades. I received my initial endorsement close to the 100 hr mark. The saying goes in tailwheeel. there are those who have and those that will... I was one that did. I nose my vintage Stinson over on her back. I'm glad to report I got back in the saddle and got recurrent and flew my FAA checkride. I was a boost of confidence to learn how much I did not know about tailwheel, as I'm sure you are discovering now. I encourage you to get your Seaplane rating now that you have some tailwheel skills. You will see how much TW translates to SES. Blue skys above and keep the rubber side tracking straight!

Its great to see you flying an aeroplane with a wheel at the proper end ;). Looks like you're making rapid progress as well. I've got quite a few hours tail wheel but I can always glean some learning points from your videos. Keep 'em coming!

Fun Stuff! Enjoyed watching.

Wheelers - I taught myself these in the Chippy having read about how to do it, Touch down on the mains fuselage-level, power off, and as they touch, FORWARD stick to 'pin it on'. Keep those feet working as the speed falls and MORE forward stick to keep the tail up until with the stick on the forward stop the tail lands itself and we roll to a stop (OK you don't have to do that - you can just let the tail land sooner - but it's fun!). With about 30 kts down the strip you can come to a stop with the tail up! Then there's tail-up taxying - a real test of 'happy feet' The potential for a high speed ground loop is high, so only try this when your feet are well trained. Fun! In 35 years of taildragging I never ground looped. Came close once after 3 years in the Yak when I went back to the Chippy and vacated the runway a tad too fast. I felt the tail step out, but full rudder with brake held it and all was well!

Solid lesson!

another nice video

Great video, I always learn something

Great Video

Been watching your tail wheel training. I am looking at getting my tail wheel in place of a BFR!

Great to see this video. As both a Tail wheel (Stearman) and a nose wheel pilot (Mooney) I would say almost all nose wheel pilots actually land in a wheel landing AOA but never think about happens next. To land a nose wheel AC in true stalled configuration would scare the bejesus out of most. Hence, the reluctance to keep a stick back thru a bounced landing. It,s either stick back and ride it out or WOT and go around. Depends on the magnitude of the bounce. Also. Those "ah hah MOMENTS can lead to complacency. Just saying never think this MS. Tail wheel wouldn't leave you when you need her most.

That's cool looks like it takes a lot of skill

When you get 991 back, can you go over the forward slips again, with this CFI's improvements, and a camera view of the instruments? I'm most interested with seeing the steam gauge airspeed while in the slip

If I was learning to fly I’d want him in the back for sure 👍👍

Excellent Instructor Student is doing very good . this type of plane requires a lot of training. 5/25/2021

Wow this has to really help for when N80991 gets back to flying. Really be strong on the ruder and crosswind corrections and being good on the controls!

I see a tailwheel in your near future. Nice progression Josh.

Anyone else feel like they had inadequate tailwheel training after watching these videos? :) When I got my endorsement we unfortunately didn't get a ton of crosswind practice in. Great work, keep it up!

You have the best pilot voice

Interesting what you discussed about the slip. When you add full deflection on the rudder, you are adding a LOT of drag which in my mind would result in a loss of airspeed if you keep your attitude the same. This is why you decend so quickly. What Keith said does make sense as far as less direct airflow into the pitot tube. Just scratching my head a little over that one...🤔

HI, my name id Dylan and I'm thinking of becoming a pilot and you are extremely inspiring.

I would love to learn how to fly, would get my PPL. I'd do it in America or Australia and do it in some quiet backwater location, where the sun shines and there would be nothing but flying for a few weeks. Not having the money to do that watching your videos and others like it on youtube is the next best thing. And the occasional session on my old flight sim. Could watch it all for days!

In the Chippy on a soft field t/o, you can pull it off the ground way on the back of the drag curve and fly it in ground effect as it accelerates. The aeroplane TALKS to you through the stick! You can feel the wing 'coming alive' as the speed increases until it's the right side of the drag curve and you can climb away.

Josh, I really enjoyed the vids of your tail wheel endorsement work. I did mine a few years ago and it’s made me a lot more aware of using the rudder and wind on the ground...flying from chocks to chocks...which is not so critical on a nose wheel airplane. Do you have regular access to a tail wheel airplane to work on honing your skills?

Are you working towards your CFI II? I enjoy your channel and it's very helpful. I'm flying a T-Bird II tricycle and I'll be flying a KR2 tail.

Watching this doing research for my tail-wheel training before I go in. That and reading the AFH, PHAK, and flight manuals for the airplane I'm gonna be training in. All this prepping to pick up a kitfox for back-country nonsense.

I love your videos, tail wheels always freaked me out but now maybe not. Lol

I learned a lot from that

Same issues for me. I have to think of a wheel landing as flying low. I'll get it one day. Small bumps with the stick and avoid the ground loop (scary).

Started training in a 172. Fly a Champ now. LOVE the Champ.

Great videos you have made great progress on your cinematography for the early videos. Sad to say all the skills to fly a tailwheel airplane other than wheel landings should have been taught during pilot training. When I was taught to fly we didn’t need a endorsement. Instructors knew you could some day fly a tailwheel airplane so use of control was important. My instructor name was curly although he had no hair. He would have you run down the centerline of the long runway on one wheel so you can get used to using the rudder and the ailerons . Then I started flying tailwheel airplanes it was no problem. Champs and Stinson’s were easy to wheel land but Cessna 180s and other spring landing gear took a few tries

@ 6:42 Actually in this context "airborne" is a qualified term. Because yes, if the mains hit hard enough to force the tail down abruptly - you will in fact _rise_ into the air but rather than actually flying- you will be in a _stall_ . The reason is because unlike tri-gear types tailwheel a/c in a hard wheel landing don't exactly "bounce"; they _leap_ back into the air with no means of remaining there, as the a of a is suddenly increased which generates lift, but with power off, flight can not be sustained. Harvey Plourdes explains this in a great book (that I would have killed for if it'd been available back when I was learning... ) titled: _The Compleat Taildragger Pilot_ . He compares it to a bounce with a jump; his word is "jounce". Correcting this requires power. Preventing it requires alertness, sharp reflexes and knowing exactly when to release back pressure. Either way, left alone you are in for a wild ride. Ask me how I know.

I'm learning to fly in a biplane right now, a lot like a Stinson. But we started with wheel landings

Do you plan to move to the back seat in one of your later lessons? I’d like to hear your thoughts (or Keith’s) regarding the sight picture change. I fly a Champ but looking to get some time in a J3. Great video! I can’t remember seeing a better tailwheel series on KZfaq.

Josh, with All the time in the air and a CFII it's refreshing to see you too sweating a bit with this new found flying experience. Do you feel that you and your students would be better pilots if you started in tailwheel airplanes?

At what point do you decide to do a 3 point vs wheel landing? Are there situations where one is preferred over the other? Is the ‘tail low’ for grass more similar to the three point just let the tail go earlier?

ware can i get a model airplane like his

Almost all of my time is tailwheel, got my ppl training in one. I’m actually intimidated by nose wheel lol. Awesome video, you got some really great tailwheel instruction. Seriously, next time your in Alaska, get my contact info from Chris and we will get you out on some gravel bars. :-)

Why would uou choose a wheel landing in a crosswind? Thoughts please.

Who is your CFI on this video, and do you have a contact info for them? Also are they out of TX? Thanks!

Whew been slipping correctly ;-)

Where’s Brooke been?

CAN U PLACE SOMETHING “WHITE” ON TOP OF THE STICK. BECAUSE SOME TIMES ITS “DIFFICULT” TO EXACTLY SEE ITS POSITION WITH THE SHADOWS. THANK U GREAT VIDEOS 👍👍👍

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Grass is sooo much nicer for tail draggers! No need to ever touch the brakes except for taxy.

Josh how old are you?

Please excuse my Canadian ignorance but, don't you guys learn slips, stalls and spins as a normal part of your pilot training? I am often surprised when hear, who I consider to be accomplished pilots, even commercial or instrument rated pilots, have to be educated on what a slip is or hear someone say they've never done a spin. The forward slip was the prefered way to carry out crosswind landings during my training and I'd go up and do an hour, hour & a half of spins just for the sheer fun of it. You guys don't do this? I was also surprised when he said wheel landings were more advanced. I was taught that both wheel landings and 3 pointers were just different types of landings both with advantages and disadvantages but neither to be afraid of and both to be mastered. Great video, thanks.

I wish my instructor would have started me on the pavement cuz it made me afraid of the pavement for the longest time. Grass is WAY move forgiving. Even today, I’ll land in the grass if I can.

When you “give it back”, you’re just giving the plane more energy to bounce & balloon. Obvious right?

hi

Find a bug on the windshield and keep it on the runway.

How old is he

When are you going to learn helicopters??

So I'm watching this as I'm doing my tailwheel conversion next month in a Decathlon. Throughout the videos you have been mentioning about not giving the slack back on the controls so it's almost a sawing motion, but I noticed the instructor you was with doing it really badly at 15:00 in the video..... Would be good to get him to demo the landing with what he is preaching.

Stick back!!! Stick back!!

..lets lighten up on the pole grip. try two fingers at all time.

Personally I am not a fan of the "slowly let the tail down" method. It leads to a long time of decreased rudder authority and no tailwheel steering which can be tough in crosswinds. I prefer the "hold the stick forward until the tail starts to come down on it's own, then full aft stick" it still prevents becoming airborne again. Everyone has their own method they prefer, you will find there is not one "right" way to fly a tailwheel. Try different techniques and find what works best for you.

1930's instructor said "Son...the purpose of all landings, is to arrive at the crash as SLOW as is possible." Therefore he didn't have much use for WHEELIES. We don't 3pt (wheel land) a tri gear, so what's the purpose of wheel landing a tailwheel ? In his day pre (WW2) most landing FIELDS were short. No long hard surface, ex military airports like today. Every landing was practiced for the purpose of engine failure landings in very marginal areas. Wheel landings in tri and tailwheel planes always use more runway than an off field would generally allow. What ever we're going to hit. We want to do so as slow as is possible. Was disappointed that on ground, aileron adverse yaw to supplement directional control was not included. AILERONS are 2 to 4 times the surface area of the wee rudder, and unstalled thru the roll out, because they are HORIZONTAL to the relative wind & NOT vertical as the rudder is. Also AILERONS have 2 to 3 times the leverage of the wee rudder. AILERONS rule!!! Cheers CFI R Bud Fuchs 1507987

Annnnnd try not to start all of your radio transmissions with “annnnnnd.”

A tailwheel airplane will teach you the real skills that are mostly unforgiven in a tricycle gear. Your bad habits will surely be shown. Once you master a tail wheel, you will become a much better pilot in a tricycle gear as well.

It’s soooooo weird to go forward on the stick. Completely unnatural for a trike trained pilot.

Am I the only one who was watching the instructors landing and thought it was god awful? Haha must have been the camera angle, looked way too fast and wonky and had to use the runway length to correct it

I wish the student wouldn't start talking and critiquing the landing before the airplane has slowed to a reasonable taxi speed.

Like what you are doing....as a Retired DPE with 40+ yrs....and flying 2 B-17, DC-3 & the DC-3TP.....this is discussion can go for yrs....however, the wheel landing is about 75% the beginning of a ground loop.....do not have enough time or paper to write on it....just like everything else,,,,,knowledge, et c is the basic foundation...foot note, all WWII manuals say 3 point! In every plane just about....

When you “give it back”, you’re just giving the plane more energy to bounce & balloon. Obvious right ?