Originally posted by willembad
Couple (maybe three) questions:
1) What's conventional gear got to do with it? ALL aircraft displayes left turning tendensies (right if you fly VW or speak Russian) for the same reasons.
2) It seems that the 3000 hours came over quite some period of time? If you go and read your PPL books again, P-factor might become clearer.
3) Gyroscopic procession should be in the same chapter.
Willem
Answers:
1) If you have ever flow a real taildragger you would know all about P-factor before the first 100 feet of your take off roll.
2) It did take a long time, all the way back to Vietnam.
3) I checked its not there, perhaps you could enlighten us?