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My RV-8 Build Log
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Date: 10-7-2014
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Number of Hours: 5.00
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Manual Reference:
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Brief Description: Conventional Gear Skills Acquisition Day 2
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Day 2 at Big Sky Country starts with breakfast, and ground school. This morning is cross wind landings. After the ground school, we fly back to the Gadsden airport and perform a few 'normal' landings, then move over to the cross wind runway.
Several attempts were less than desirable, but finally begin to let the place tell me how much correction was needed, and some of the landings were decent. I guess either Greg got tired of me trying, or I got good enough, or perhaps he just wanted to have some tread left on the left tire for landing at Big Sky Country, so after an hour plus of this fun, we returned to Big Sky Country for lunch, debrief and another ground school.
The afternoon's ground school was on wheel landings, and some of the interesting characteristics of flying the J3 Cub. All of the wheel landings will be done in the Cub.
In the Cub, we start with some familiarity maneuvers, and then move to the landings. First, I perform a few three point landings just to get the sight picture, and then move to a wheel landing exercise. For the exercise, I fly down the runway must skipping the tires on the grass, again to get the sight picture of what it looks like to fly the plane on to the runway with no flare, but with great flair.
After this exercise, made several wheel landings, some successfully!
After an hour plus of bounding the cub onto the runway, we called it a day.
At the end of two full days of ground school and flights, I managed to gain some skill with tail wheel aircraft, and managed to get my tail wheel endorsement from Greg Koontz in my log book!
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The J3 Cub
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Cub on the ramp
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Geting ready to fly at Big Sky Country
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