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Old 04-03-2011, 05:32 PM
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I can't say what the cause of your problem is but I can give you some tips on real life taildragger handling, quite often you will find yourself needing full rudder deflection at low speeds to get a reaction, sometimes a dab of brake helps too, bearing in mind to handle brakes very carefully because you can put the aircraft onto it's nose, a good taildragger habbit is to keep the stick fully back while taxiing (Tiger moth has no brakes) aircraft like the spit and hurricane have a single brake lever on the control column, in order to brake a wheel independently you must apply rudder deflection and operate the brake, when rudders are centered the brakes apply to both wheels, aircraft with independent toe brakes are much easier to handle.
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