2 replies
October 2020

system

They’ll use the Cessna’s to introduce students to rudder skills. My training there as one of those 100,000 alumni was much more than an introduction to the rudder for which I feel fortunate.

1 reply
October 2020 ▶ system

bobdc6

Interesting, for those who learned to fly in tail draggers, our first rudder lesson was on the first day of training when we attempted to taxi a J3 Cub to the runup area. After that, every flight was a rudder lesson, from takeoff, to keeping the ball in the center, landing rollout, to taxing back to the tiedown area, all rudder (heel brakes too), a rudder dance. After that, we could fly pretty much anything.