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Old 12-13-2007 | 11:32 PM
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Default RE: Tower Trainer to Tail Dragger?

My Tower Trainer had a poor nosewheel setup. The nosewheel wire was smaller diameter than the holes on the engine mount. The nose wheel tended to wobble and get pulled by grass on our field, making the plane very hard to keep straight on takeoff. Eventually when I did go to a taildragger I found ground handling substantially easier.

Gstout, if your Tower Trainer is hard to handle on the ground go to your LHS and look for nose gear that is slightly larger in diameter. Klett or Goldberg used to make one, I don't know if it is still availab.e. Also make sure the nose wheel and rudder are accurately aligned...that is when the rudder is neutral the nosewheel is also neutral.

Other than this the Tower Trainer is great.