Easiest and Hardest

Well said. That's the balancing act we are often faced with.
I guess that walking away from it at the end is the final
determinant of 'not bad'.

T o d d P a t t i s t wrote:
Maule Driver wrote:


Exercising good judgment is the hard one.


Yes, and I'd add that the hardest part is deciding what is
"good." It's not really all that hard to fly only locally
on perfect VFR days, but you don't gain much skill that way.

Sometimes, to be safe over the long haul, you need to have
skills that you can only get by going just a bit farther
down the road than you've gone before. The trick is to take
that next step when everything is in your favor and to make
it small enough that your current skills keep you safe.

The ground is the hardest.
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wrote:
What in your view are the easiest and hardest aspects about flying? I
mean in the phase between takeoff and touchdown, so the obvious
"taxiing" doesn't count

Hardest would be countering windshear on finals or flying IFR through a
storm at low altitude, I'd imagine.

Hoping this thread gets responses

Ramapriya

Thoughts to fly by,
"... avoid the terrain, don't run out of fuel, and don't pick up a
package by its string"

The first 2 are easy, the last is the hard one.

wrote:
What in your view are the easiest and hardest aspects about flying? I
mean in the phase between takeoff and touchdown, so the obvious
"taxiing" doesn't count

Hardest would be countering windshear on finals or flying IFR through a
storm at low altitude, I'd imagine.

Hoping this thread gets responses

Ramapriya

On 2006-06-28, Robert M. Gary wrote:
In a tailwheel plane taxiing is the hardest.

I'm not sure I agree: taxiing my Cessna 140 wasn't hard - the visibility
over the nose on the ground was reasonable (better than some nosewheel
planes like the Cherokee Six with its unfeasably long conk), and it had a
steerable tailwheel. Landing it in a gusty crosswind was far harder
than taxiing it in the same crosswind (thanks to the steerable tailwheel).
Having brakes that worked consistently all the time was helpful.

On the other hand, in the Auster, I'd definitely agree that taxiing is
the hardest. It has a free castoring tailwheel which you can't even
lock. Visibility over the nose is terrible, so you have to S-turn. The
brakes are inconsistent (cable operated drum brakes) and in a quartering
tailwind especially it can be very tough.

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