Brakes or Rudders?

sopdan said:
What about toe brakes on the rudder pedals, which can also be actuated by the handle for the dive-brakes?

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:yeahthat:
 
PlaneCrazy said:
MENTAL PICTURE COMING TO MIND:
Fred Flinstone stopping with his feet on the ground:nana2:
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I wish I had a book with me...

It was a book of old Air Force cartoons and one that I remember was a pilot wearing a cowboy hat with his boots stuck through the bottom of the airplane using spurs for brakes.

Good book. Need to grab it next time I am back home.
 
I also hate heel brakes...

With my size 13 in the Cub, it is pretty much impossible to apply brakes and rudder at the same time, so taxi can be hard sometimes.
 
Jeremy said:
Just taking a wild guess, but are heel brakes for planes that have the single wheel in the back?
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As opposed to the ones that have a single wheel in the front?? (also know as a training wheel) :D

Most heel brakes that I know of are in tailwheel airplanes.
 
Oh, sure then. It's just that most aircraft I've seen have the front-wheel, only old ones I've seen that have it in the back were old airplanes.
 
Jeremy said:
Oh, sure then. It's just that most aircraft I've seen have the front-wheel, only old ones I've seen that have it in the back were old airplanes.
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Just so you know, ctab is being smart about calling it a training wheel.

Aircraft with the wheel in front are called tricycle gear aircraft (they look a lot like riding a tricycle, right?)

Aircraft with the wheel in the back are called tailwheel or conventional gear aircraft, because in the early days of aviation, tailwheel aircraft were the standard, not the exception.

Tailwheels are also notoriously harder to fly than tricycle gears (think about trying to ride a tricycle backwards), which is where the nose wheel/training wheel joke comes from.
 
OhioStatePilot said:
Just so you know, ctab is being smart about calling it a training wheel.

Aircraft with the wheel in front are called tricycle gear aircraft (they look a lot like riding a tricycle, right?)

Aircraft with the wheel in the back are called tailwheel or conventional gear aircraft, because in the early days of aviation, tailwheel aircraft were the standard, not the exception.

Tailwheels are also notoriously harder to fly than tricycle gears (think about trying to ride a tricycle backwards), which is where the nose wheel/training wheel joke comes from.
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If you don't believe it is a training wheel, watch someone who has no experience in a tailwheel try to taxi vs a tailwheel pilot taxing an airplane with a training wheel. :D:D




and yeah, I'm just being "smart" about it ;)
 
I don't think there's really much else like taxiing a tail wheel, but if you'd consider taxiing a nose wheel aircraft to be like driving a car, I'd say taxiing a tail wheel aircraft to be like sailing a yacht. That's to say that you can blunder through taxiing a nose gear A/C while a tail wheel takes finesse, art, and knowing the right dance steps.
 
how do you know there is a pilot in the room.......?

The lesson we all learned today, never ask a bunch of pilots an easy question:nana2:
 
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