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C172 Tailwheel conversion

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Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:55 am

Re: C172 Tailwheel conversion

M6RV6 wrote:Chris, just guessing, but how many washers did it take?
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Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:19 pm

Re: C172 Tailwheel conversion

wannabe wrote:Well, if you had a new 180ph Lyc. with an 80" seaplane prop pulling a 170B with "cargo" interior, (light), with 26" AB slicks on wet grass, you will most likely need more rudder. .....
Flat pitch, full throttle, lift the tail with full right rudder and it would still slide to the left. ...


I think a lot of airplanes are short of rudder power for early tail-up op's, esp with extra horsepower. One fix I can think of would be to correct rudder stop adjustments to allow full travel, per Cessna sries 100 maintenance manual of course.

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