Notes on the Tailwheel Checkout and an Introduction to Ski Flying

Notes on the Tailwheel Checkout and an Introduction to Ski Flying

by Burke Mees
Notes on the Tailwheel Checkout and an Introduction to Ski Flying

Notes on the Tailwheel Checkout and an Introduction to Ski Flying

by Burke Mees

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Overview

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In the northern latitudes, many pilots fly a tailwheel in the summer and then put the same airplane on skis in the winter… an initial tailwheel checkout is often followed up with a ski checkout. Author Burke Mees keeps to that sequence of events in this book, which covers the basics for both checkouts along with valuable commentary on the finer points.

This book is meant to be useful not only to the beginner first making this transition, but also to provide relevant observations to the pilot or instructor already flying these kinds of airplanes. The author's clear explanations have proven effective with students and are distilled from two decades of experience in flying and flight instructing in tailwheel airplanes and skiplanes.

In addition to an orderly presentation of all the basic topics required to develop tailwheel/ski competence, Mees also covers advanced topics such as flying multi-engine tailwheel airplanes and ski-flying on glaciers. But rather than simply explain the list of topics, this book anticipates and preemptively addresses questions and difficulties experienced by the average student. Here readers will find insights about the learning process


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781619541917
Publisher: Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc.
Publication date: 11/03/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 112
File size: 12 MB
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About the Author

Burke Mees was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, but has spent most of his career flying commercially in Alaska. In 1994 he took a summer job over the phone flying seaplanes in Juneau and never managed to leave. He went on to fly in the Aleutian Islands and later moved to the Anchorage area. Burke's first experience flying tailwheel airplanes was as a young flight instructor -- he got a checkout in a 1946 Aeronca Champ for the express purpose of teaching a 69-year-old woman to fly it. All three survived that project and he has been flying tailwheel airplanes ever since. In Anchorage, Burke started flying skis both privately and for hire, which has included flying reporters along the Iditarod trail, providing instruction for ski checkouts and flying on the local mountain glaciers. Burke says that for him, flying has always been a matter of honest work, but it is also something enjoyed. He looks at it as an art that can continually be refined, and flight instructing has always been a way to do that. He says that, "There's no better way to explore a topic in aviation than to organize your thoughts and teach it to someone else." Currently his day job is flying as a 737 Captain in Alaska, but he still keeps his CFI current and does some instructing on the side.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: The Tailwheel Airplane
Why Tailwheel Airplanes?
The Preliminaries
Stability
Weathervaning
Adverse Yaw
Angle of Attack
Flying the Airplane
Hand Propping
Taxi
The Normal Takeoff
The Reference Attitude
Three-Point Takeoff
Crosswind Takeoff
In Flight
Slips
Landings
Three-Point Landing
Wheel Landings
Pitch Instability During the Wheel Landing
Premature Three-Point Landing
Airspeed and Pitch Attitude in the Flare
Crosswind Landings
Three-Point versus Wheel Landings
The Go-Around
Different Ways of Doing Things
Other Topics
Brakes
Tailwind Landings
Pavement versus Gravel
Tailwheel Shimmy
Flying from the Back Seat
Getting in the Airplane

Part II: An Introduction to Ski Flying
Preflight
Engine Preheat
The Rest of the Preflight
Flying the Skiplane
Taxi
Takeoff
Before Landing
Landing
Performance
The Ski Environment
Overflow
Getting Stuck
Breaking Through the Ice
Flat Light
Night
Parking/Postflight
Skis
Different Kinds of Skis
Tail Ski
Nosewheel Skiplanes
Take It From Here

Appendices
Appendix 1—Multi-Engine Tailwheel Airplanes
Appendix 2—The Glacier Landing
About the Author
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