วีดีโอ

Glad I found your channel mate! 55 year old Aussie here that’s decided to get my light aircraft licence (rather useful here as everything is rather a long from everything else in the outback) but absolutely the main reason is to eventually have a crack at the fun stuff! Liked and subbed, thanks for the advice 👍

Rip

Awesome Vid!!!! I am so envious. Most incredible father-son time imaginable!!!!!

I just got the DJI Mic 2 after tons of audio snafu's just curious how it went...can't totally tell from the video LOL

Love my Nova, so comfortable. Flew it all the way to Nationals and back

What is your reasoning for teaching the wheel landing before the three point?

How much do they cost, I wonder...

Excellent!!! Great work and instruction….

Great video!!!!!!! Thx for this

Great video Alex...super informative. Helps me in the tailwheel training you're doing with me as well...love this!

I did it the other way round. Got my UK A,B,C Certificates in gliders in 1963 courtesy of the Air Training Corps.. Got my PPL in 1968 in a PA18-95. Only in 1991 did I go near a nosewheel. I bought a Piper PA38 and leased it to a local flying school. Used it to practice nosewheel taxing as well. Took about 3 hours to reach competence.

I taught myself to fly tail wheel in a kitfox , I had a little over 1200 hours of single engine at the time and understood the principles .. quite a few go arounds took me a good 25 hours in calm weather to feel confident and 200 + hours to be competent in all conditions

Took me 10 hrs in my citabria gcbc after not flying for yrs and being lowtime 172.ppl

How does one start the process of getting the tail wheel with you guys?

Do you do any high speed taxi on one wheel? I've done a lot of that for my tailwheel training. Made the first crosswind landings relatively easy.

If you want your tailwheel without paying a whole bunch for an instructor, practice in a 150. One wheel (both sides) and main wheel touch and goes without nose gear touching, and maximum effort soft field take off and landings.

Just say it ! ....how many hours training ?

You are a GREAT instuctor....😊 if I had a medical, I would want you for my CFI...

I received my TW endorsement in April 2017 after 4.4 hours of training in the Piper J5A Cub that was built three months before Pear Harbor. After over 500 hours of accumulated time in the Antonov An-2, I have found the Piper Cub to be a more challenging airplane to fly than any other heavy tailwheel airplane.

So good... we need MORE!

Outstanding, makes me want to get my tailwheel all over again! Great content as always

The other advantage of learning in a J-3 is the student is not able to see the instruments. they learn how to feel the plane!

Big rudder inputs to stop the yaw, small inputs to correct the heading. Rushing to get back center causes over-control. Love the vids! Upbeat intro music, great footage, interesting commentary. A bright spot in my day. I’m blown away by the greaser wheelies your student pulled off, not sure I believe it’s his first flight in a cub ;)

I have a bit over 6000 hours, all in GA airplanes, 0 tailwheel time. I just bought a RV-6 and it took me all of 11 hours for me to get comfortable taking off and landing good enough to feel comfortable going on my own. It really is like learning to fly all over again!

Glad you’re back!!!

Sorry, but what is a tail wheel endorsement? I soloed with 4 hours of duel training in a Piper Cub 60 years ago. My, how times have changed. Even after flying all the single engine Cessna models, I still loved the Piper Cub! Michael

He’s back!! 😎👍 Great video. I got my ‘46 Cub a couple months ago and SUPER fun flying and learning. This video is exactly what people need when learning. Awesome. Good to see new stuff too!

I start teaching dynamic proactive rudder movement in first taxi by having them first push rudder pedals dynamically and proactively to the stop. This encourages slow taxi and teaches that the amount is not as important as the constant and dynamic. Constant stays ahead of the airplane. Dynamic is smoother than reactive jabs. Babys waddle before they get fine motor control. Demanding finesse early delays learning. In order to allow dynamic proactive constant rudder movement on short final, flair, touchdown, roll out, and taxi, we cannot ride the controls closely. We need to use Wolfgang's stall down technique in order to, "arrive at ground level in three point attitude all slowed up and ready to squat." We want to be slow enough that after only a short roll, they can ground loop without catching a wing and busting the bungee on the inside gear. Getting slow enough to sink enough to bring dynamic throttle into control of glide angle and elevator to control airspeed without a big balloon when we further decelerate coming into high ground effect. As Wolfgang points out, we can then use the speed up of the apparent rate of closure with the spot to gauge the back pressure on the stick. We do the same every time we come into an intersection with our cars. We don't use the ground speed indicator (speedometer), we let us on the gas pedal to keep what appears to be a brisk walk. The Army calls this power/pitch deceleration to prevent speed up the apparent brisk walk rate of closure approach. Good job with a good student. It takes considerable time when riding the controls as students learn best and fastest by being the manipulator of the controls. It helped me, years ago, teaching in a 7AC Champ that rented for $3.00 per hour wet. It helped to have the student every day until solo. It helped that fabric went on fast and props were wooden in a week maybe rebuild. I am too old now and medically used up, but I started not having as much fun when pilots began wanting the airplane saved over learning to fly it. They sure don't learn fast that way and they have no idea what a ground loop is until they have one. And if fast when it finally happens, there goes an expensive airplane now days. Good looking Cub, by the way.

Freaking awesome! What kind of intercom/radio setting so you have set up? So crisp and clear! My J3 comms are so much noisier…

Dude your stuff is always 🔥🔥🔥 Quite the tease for what it takes to do what you do, but it’s good to see what a real first flight looks like. I love teaching TW and glad to see other young guys flying these classic airplanes. 👏🏽💪🏽

Finally!! I was really missing that. Greatest youtube creator man.

What a great series! Bro, you can’t leave us for so long! Best flying content in the TUBE..

I’m excited for the series because tail wheel is my planned next training step. Flying is a hobby for me. I’m not super interested in traveling around in airplanes, I just love the feel of flying and tailwheel seems to be the way to savor it. My long-term goal is to build and fly a Pitts S1, so my hope is that I can get a Luscombe to enjoy my certificate and aquire the time and skill to fly the Pitts if I’m ever able to make that happen. We’ll see if finances ever allow me to do more than rent a plane every couple weeks. :)

👏👏👏

I wish the tailwheel endorsement were a requirement for the private cert. I flew with a commercial multi rated student for the first time yesterday who came to me still struggling with crosswind landings. I asked the simple question of why are we supposed to land with the upwind main first with a crosswind. He didn’t know. I truly don’t understand how he managed to get through private, instrument, commercial, and multi without understanding basic crosswind technique. The current state of flight training is in a really bad place. Please keep making these videos so people understand how important training like this is!

sick helmet what brand is that?

How it works as balance wice to flew those alone from a front seat.

Missing it. I taught in pitts S2a back in the day. I’m retired. 😂

Always loved the Eagle, a Stylish Pitts with a cool paint job.

Wish u made more vids man, so fun to watch

I wish you could have captured the sound. I've heard it kinda sounds like a shotgun going off.

Mr. Coats would you want to fly formation with me some weekend? I would very much like to see your Edge 540 which I always wanted but I needed 2 seats.

I’m looking for a west coast based familiarization instructor. Purchased an AcroSport II for spring ferry from Midwest to west coast. Tailwheel proficient in Scout. Can you suggest landing -focused training pilot for me?

I know this L-3 very well. I am in the Commemorative Air Force and a crew member with the P-51 Mustang GUNFIGHTER. This L-2 "Looking Glass II" was once hangared in the same hangar as the Mustang in Council Bluffs, IA. Our pilot was Roger Vipond, a WW II pilot/veteran. When he passed away, the Great Plains Wing allowed the Aeronca to be sent back to CAF Headquarters in Midland, TX. I lost track of it after that. It was a really good airplane back in the day.

Got my first aerobatic exposure about 8 years ago and repeated it every year since. Currently building a skybolt for the soul purpose of being able to go fly upside down more consistently… :-)

Im breaking into my A&P so i can afford the schooling this is my bigger dream

W emergency landinf

Where did you get the snowboard goggles

I see your flying out of hemet, my buddy and I have kitfoxes and fly there quite a bit. Let’s meet up one of these days

i know you dont feel the motivation to post, because your really livin that life and it might not seem worth it because of the views right now, but i swear if you keep posting you'll gain traction, we really needa get as many people into this hobby as possible to keep competitive aerobatics alive