I have nearly 500 hours in taildraggers of various sizes and discriptions. I love my coupe and enjoy that flight a half hour before sundown when things cool down and the bumps are gone BUT; I would rather land anything with rudder pedals in a cross wind than anything without pedals. You can argue technique but the other evening just after touchdown I got hit by a strong side gust which lifted one wing back off the ground and lacking a one hundred foot wide runway, I might have wound up in the Mesquite! There is that transition at touchdown when you no longer have aerodynamic control and the plane is so light on it's tires and at such a high speed (60 mph) that you have little control from the tires as yet. Now I'm not going to give up the coupe, but I won't agree that it posseses greater capability than a three axis airplane, it doesn't.
Dick in NM.
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