Teaching Tailwheel Flying: An Instructor's Toolkit

by Mr. Kim Edward Bevier CFII

An experienced tailwheel flight instructor condenses his twenty years of teaching experience into a training handbook for other flight instructors and aspiring tailwheel pilots.The book includes guidance on how to customize instruction for common student problems and advice on how to deal with the two main human factors of anxiety and unrealistic expectations.Also included are chapters on aircraft selection for training purposes and strategies for decomposing any flight maneuver into its fundamental components, and then devising exercises to help students conquer their particular problems.Teaching Tailwheel Flying is the only practical handbook available to new or established flight instructors on teaching the important skills involved in flying tailwheel airplanes.

72 pages, Paperback

Published August 14, 2016

Reviews

[Jack O'Hara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not bad.
- I'd add some runway exercises, especially regarding that "expensive speed" during roll out and take off. The "3-step" is most valuable for example.
- I suggest that each chapter contain some explanation at the end to cover more powerful taildraggers that require definite control inputs regarding the pitch-yaw coupling as an example. Some exercises should go along with that, such as high speed taxi with pitch movements, the falling leaf for directional control expectation management and roll-on-a-point for adverse yaw control.
- Ground effect provides more lift, but not more drag, so the a/c will float longer.
- Tail low wheel landing could be added.
- Images would add much for the readers who are visual learners.
- personality types - well done, especially the "perfectionist" fear of failure is the hidden concept.

Overall, a good book.