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Delays…Sigh…

10/29/2024

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by Alan Marcum
The plan had been to start (continue, really) my work on the tailwheel endorsement this past Friday.

That was the plan. The reality: my instructor cancelled late the night before. Unfortunately, I'm unavailable all of November. I'd hoped to get one flight in, maybe two, to refresh all the muscle memory so that any visualization review I did during the month would have value.

In the grand scheme of things, it's a small obstacle. So, more on this adventure in a month.
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Totally Bananas

10/19/2024

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Rachael in the Mighty Mouse Aircam 20ft over the reservoir before flying to the coast and waving to all the beach goers on a Friday afternoon. OMG WHAT IS MY LIFE?! (honestly most of it is very unglamorous as I have a special ferry permit from the FSDO to drive my teenage and tween kids around while they are living their best life and trying to keep dick pics off the internet.)
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It Took Me a While…

10/19/2024

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by Alan Marcum
Picture of old airplane, Taylorcraft L-2, N48101, silver with black and white wing bands and a US Air Force starTaylorcraft 48101 (courtesy Ann Elsbach and Faith Mason)
​I've been flying for a while. A few decades. I don't have a tailwheel endorsement.

Yet.

It's time. Hell, it's way past time.

The funny thing is that I first flew a taildragger during my primary training (most of which was in 152s). A Taylorcraft L-2, vintage 1940s. Rag wings, wood prop, maybe 65 hp if you whispered the right sweet nothings into the engine's ear. No electrical system: I got to learn how to hand-prop. That sweet airplane, N48101 (now gone: someone laid her on her back during landing, hitting brakes too hard and pitching her up and over 😢), along with her owner-CFI, Ann Elsbach, taught me more about adverse yaw in five seconds than all the books magazine articles ever written. But, like a fool, I didn't continue back then and get the endorsement.

Oh, I've flown other taildraggers. J-3 Cub, Citabria, Stearman, even a Tiger Moth. But never enough to merit the endorsement.

I'm excited to begin this adventure, fly with Rachael and Jim and Oliver, teach my feet to dance properly while landing.

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Alan Marcum is a long-time private pilot a mostly flies a Mooney 252.

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