While your comments about the tyre are interesting and historically
accurate I doubt if any Mono is still using the original golf buggy
tyre. What you say about grass field strips is good but once you are up
to speed on grass moving to hard runways is not a problem.
I converted to a mono from PA28's with a instructor familiar with
Europa's it took about seven hours all on hard runways. The trick as
mentioned by Bud and others is to keep it absolutely straight and not
allow it to deviate one bit from the straight path, I believe that also
applies to all tailwheel aircraft from four engined transports to single
seat hotrods.
In my mind Trigears are great but Mono's are tremendous.
Just my views based on 15 years with a mono and now three months with a
trigear.
Tim Houlihan
On 24/11/2017 15:41, AirEupora wrote:
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> One of the things that has not been talked about is the landing surface that
you will be using. The mono does good on glass fields. WIf you have a number
of hours in a tail wheel aircraft and you get good training from a mono pilot
you should be OK, but any tail wheel aircraft can and will bite you if you don't
fly it to parking. One of the best ways to practice is in a glider. They
all have a mono wheel and they are fun to fly.
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> In many ways I wish I had biuilt a mono wheel, as they are faster. They look
so nice when they fly by. With a 914 they are an outstanding airplane.
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> If you live it the U.S. 97% of all your landings will be on a hard surface!
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> Rick Stockton
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> Read this topic online here:
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> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=475582#475582
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