Can I just add one thing to Grahams excellent advice.
If at all possible practice your first few landings, takeoffs on a grass
runway. The aircraft is much easier to handle on grass. Also make sure the
mainwheel is inflated to the correct pressure (20psi from memory). If you
overinflate it chances are you will bounce on landing. Also, get the
approach speed spot on or you will float down the runway for a long time.
As Graham says, keep the aircraft straight BUT use small movements of your
feet. If you bang in a bootful of rudder chances are the aircraft will
groundloop and you will lose the prop (nearly every mono pilot has - at some
time or other).
Have fun.
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> Paul
> you need a few hours armchair flying. Get it firmly fixed in your mental
> autopilot that you must not land until the tail wheel is on the ground.
> Then, as soon as you feel it touch, Stick Hard Back. Now, concentrate very
> hard on keeping it straight, you need to spot and correct any yaw the
> instant it happens, which it will.
> If, or should I say when?!? you land mainwheel first, you must continue to
> fly the airplane until it stops, much harder because the effect of the
> ground adds more variables
> Graham
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