<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size: medium">so i went out this weekend despite the crappy washington weather. never happened before, but i guess i'm not the only person that flies at "my" spot. the guy had a tiger 2 all snazzed out set up like a taildragger. i watched him for a few minutes and was asking questions about doing different maneuvers and what not. he was flying pretty damn good, so i started describing my issues with taking off and he wanted to look at my plane. he said everything looked fine except for something someone told him a long time ago. he said it looked like my gear wires were a little pushed out from some of the early beatings i put her through on landing. he also said i should have my gear pressed a little "toe in". so we straightened them out a bit and adjusted them and the wheel collars. my tail wheel was a little slopppy also, so we switched the connector to a diferent hole and set the ole girl on the ground, fired her up and did a couple taxi checks. well one of them igot a little out of control with the speedand before i knew it, she was in the air heading for a guard rail. i asked who the hell put that there as i jerked the stick back and missed it by about 2 feet, (thank God for bigger than necessary motors)got her up high since she was in the air and farted around for a few til she was running low on juice. the guy, bill, said that it looked like everything was going well and asked if i belonged to any clubs anywhere. i said no that i'm not home enough to pay for the club dues and all, that i just enjoyed flying out here where there was noone else. wetalked for another minute or 2then he left and i stayed for about 3 more hours, earning myself as earfull of crap from the ole lady when i got home. but, low and behold, i can take off i would say like a pro, but that would be a little excessive. but she tracks straight and beautifully down the runway with very little correction as if she were new again. oh yeah, a little thing in my radio called exponential does wonders too. maybe i will be joining that club sometime.
one other thing i was going to ask earlier. i heard it was a lot harder learning to fly with a tail dragger than one with tricycle gear. i'm eventually wanting to get into warbirds, but should i switch to a tricycle setup til i get the take off down better? but now i know the answer. never flew one and don't really care to now.
go figure it would be something so simple and i'm not getting worse as the flights go by. making turns with only the rudder is definitely something to put a little challenge into the mix.
IMAC HERE I COME!!!!!- thank you everyone for your suggestions and pushing along. now i want to fly every chance i get and leave the rest on the board for a while.
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