Tailwheel Endorsement Program

Your feet have a job now

Five lessons in the Luscombe, from the first slow taxi to the tailwheel endorsement.

Start here

The student manual

Tailwheel Flying: the North Aero manual for the Luscombe 8E. Why the airplane wants to swap ends, what your feet are for, and how the endorsement is earned. Read it before Lesson 1. Keep it after.

Phase 1

Aircraft familiarization and basic flight

2.5 ground / 3.0 dual
Phase 2

Landing techniques

0.5 ground / 2.0 dual
Phase 3

Crosswind operations

2.0 ground / 4.5 dual

The program on paper

Program documents and standards

The documents the lessons hang off: pricing, ground loops, building commercial time, the standards every lesson is written to, and the packet and tracker as PDF downloads.

Want your feet back?

The Luscombe is waiting, and it has opinions. A discovery flight is the best first step.

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