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Sporty’s Offers Tailwheel Training Course

Patty Wagstaff uses her expertise as both a backcountry and aerobatic pilot in latest course from longtime training company.

Patty Wagstaff has decades of experience flying as a bush pilot in Africa and Alaska. [Courtesy: Sporty's Pilot Shop]
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Key Takeaways:

  • Sporty's Pilot Shop has launched a new "Tailwheel Training" course, taught by legendary aerobatic and bush pilot Patty Wagstaff.
  • The comprehensive course provides over two hours of instruction, using multiple camera angles and 3D animation to cover tailwheel aircraft physics, preflight, taxiing, takeoffs, various landing techniques, and advanced maneuvers.
  • The training aims to simplify learning to fly tailwheel aircraft across diverse types, improve a pilot's overall airmanship, and encourages operations from unimproved fields.
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Learning to fly a tailwheel-equipped airplane is a bit like learning to drive a car with a manual transmission. It can seem challenging at first, but once you get the hang of it, it’s a lot of fun and gives you the skills to operate some fancy machinery. And Sporty’s Pilot Shop is making it easier to tame the tailwheel with a new course, “Tailwheel Training.” 

The course’s teacher is Patty Wagstaff (yes, that Patty Wagstaff), who in addition to being one of most skilled aerobatic pilots in the world, also has decades of experience flying as a bush pilot in Africa and Alaska. 

Meg Godlewski

Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.

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