Notes on the tailwheel checkout and an introduction to ski flying / Burke Mees.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mees, Burke, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taildragger airplanes--Piloting.

Taildragger airplanes.

Airplanes--Landing gear.

Airplanes.

Air-pilot guides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, Washington : Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc., 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book covers the basics for an initial tailwheel and ski checkout and contains commentary on the finer points of these topics. It is meant to be useful not only to the beginner first making the transition, but also to provide insights to the pilot or instructor who is already flying these kinds of airplanes. Most skiplanes are tailwheel airplanes and in the northern latitudes, ski flying is a seasonal variation of tailwheel flying. A lot of people fly a tailwheel airplane on wheels in the summer, then put the same airplane on skis in the winter. A tailwheel checkout is often followed up with a ski checkout and the author keeps to that same sequence of events in this book. Readers will benefit from clear explanations that have proven effective with students throughout the author's extensive career, distilled from two decades of experience in flying and flight instructing in tailwheel airplanes and skiplanes. An orderly presentation of all the topics required to develop tailwheel/ski competence are included for both basic topics (needed for the tailwheel checkout required by regulations) and advanced topics (such as flying multiengine tailwheel airplanes and ski-flying on glaciers and sea-ice). The book does more than just explain the list of topics, it anticipates and preemptively addresses the questions and difficulties experienced by the average student. It presents the material according to an organization the author has found to be effective in the course of his own instructing. In addition, you will be exposed to insights about the learning process that will help prepare you for flight training"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction; Part I: The Tailwheel Airplane; Why Tailwheel Airplanes?; The Preliminaries; Stability; Weathervaning; Adverse Yaw; Angle of Attack; Flying the Airplane; Hand Propping; Taxi; The Normal Takeoff; The Reference Attitude; Three-Point Takeoff; Crosswind Takeoff; In Flight; Slips; Landings; Three-Point Landing; Wheel Landings; Pitch Instability During the Wheel Landing; Premature Three-Point Landing; Airspeed and Pitch Attitude in the Flare; Crosswind Landings; Three-Point versus Wheel Landings; The Go-Around; Different Ways of Doing Things; Other Topics; Brakes; Tailwind Landings

Pavement versus GravelTailwheel Shimmy; Flying from the Back Seat; Getting in the Airplane; Part II: An Introduction to Ski Flying; Preflight; Engine Preheat; The Rest of the Preflight; Flying the Skiplane; Taxi; Takeoff; Before Landing; Landing; Performance; The Ski Environment; Overflow; Getting Stuck; Breaking Through the Ice; Flat Light; Night; Parking/Postflight; Skis; Different Kinds of Skis; Tail Ski; Nosewheel Skiplanes; Take It From Here; Appendices; Appendix 1: Multi-Engine Tailwheel Airplanes; Appendix 2: The Glacier Landing; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781619541917

1619541912

9781619541931

1619541939