Good news, Mark. Looks like you'll beat me in the air. I went to the airport myself today, and finally got my tailwheel endorsement in the Champ. I'd have had it earlier, but we needed to cover wheel landings, which we took care of today. In the next few weeks I'll graduate to Rick's Swift, which sounds like it has handling characteristics similar to what I expect from my plane, and work on wheel landings some more.
Somehow I accidently got added to the DAR's list of things to sign off on Wednesday, although I'm nowhere near ready. He's already coming to town to do an RV-7 and a Baby Lakes, and I guess he thought he'd take care of me too. But just for kicks, I'm going to knock out as many things as I can before he gets here, and let him take a look at it since he'll be nearby. All I lack is stuff like carb heat, canopy latches, flap indication, installing wings and connecting ailerons and flaps, N numbers, EXPERIMENTAL, and data plate (these last three are standing and could be installed in minutes), shoulder belts, and a relative biggie, final weight and balance, along with stuff like mode-c calibration and compass deviation card. We'll see how it goes, but I certainly don't expect to get signed off. Maybe we'll call it the "pre-inspection" inspection... Mark Langford, Official Taildragger Pilot! N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
