ORIGINAL: Allfat
I have thought about doing this to a plane I have, but I have one question. What would happen if I just put a skid on the rear of the plane? Would it still be steerable if I just power up the engine and use rudder to bring the tail around? Or would I be better off to put in a steerable tail wheel? BTW, this is on a 60 size Stik.
Steerable tail wheel is much better. Skids dig in and cause issues. a thin teflon pad might work, but installing a tailwheel is nothing, just need a flex cable back to the rudder servo, or even linkage from the rudder to the tailwheel.
If you are really lucky and the bottom of the rudder lines up with the fuse, then you can install like a Sig Something extra, mount the tailwheel and then use a piece of clear plastic tubing glued to the bottom of the rudder, the arm from the tailwheel or tailwheel lever goes in the tube for a real clean tail wheel install
Good Luck
Richard