trublesome tailwheels, ground looping
It seems that tail draggers are giving many flyers a bad time on the take off roll. We set up the planes for a large rudder throw, for knife edge, 3D, and other aerobatics. Thats fine in the air, but on the ground, we suffer with over control. often with terrible consequences. Many new Tx's do not allow dual rates on the rudder. These planes seem to be much more manageable after the tail wheel leaves the ground and we begin to steer with the air flow over the rudder. Whats a pilot to do? I was thinking of allowing the tail wheel to simply hang limp, like a caster wheel on a shopping cart. The steering would then be done solely by air flow over the rudder, since the tail wheel is just dragging and following along, and not being actuated by the rudder servo. It seems that this would allow pilots to enjoy a gradual increase of throttle and achieve a more scale like take off, instead of the "punch the throttle and pray" scenario that we see so often. Admittedly, ground handling may be much more mushy, but it may be a good trade off. Any comments? Thanks