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From: OZark,
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Lots of good advice.
A couple of considerations:
Are the wheels aligned? a couple of hard bounces can create all sorts of alignment issues.
Rudder ( its a whole other can of worms BUT) Some instructors insist on a tail dragger, my instructor did and he had me put on a skid, no tale wheel at all. I was taught to use the rudder stick as if it were linked to the ailerons in flight and to coordinate elelvator with turns on the ground. You had to let the tail come up to stear at all. Planes often fly differently than they "drive", that is a little change in rudder is often needed just when the wheels break ground. I teach new flyers to always keep the left thumb on the rudder. If the thumb is resting off the stick it usually over controls or worse when it does reach for the stick.
A couple of considerations:
Are the wheels aligned? a couple of hard bounces can create all sorts of alignment issues.
Rudder ( its a whole other can of worms BUT) Some instructors insist on a tail dragger, my instructor did and he had me put on a skid, no tale wheel at all. I was taught to use the rudder stick as if it were linked to the ailerons in flight and to coordinate elelvator with turns on the ground. You had to let the tail come up to stear at all. Planes often fly differently than they "drive", that is a little change in rudder is often needed just when the wheels break ground. I teach new flyers to always keep the left thumb on the rudder. If the thumb is resting off the stick it usually over controls or worse when it does reach for the stick.



