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About Me
Who am I?
I am George Bachich, a 4200 hour private pilot with about 1800 hours in taildraggers. I learned to fly in a Citabria in 1968, and over the ensuing decades I have owned an Aeronca Champ, a Stinson Voyager, a Piper Pacer, a Pitts Special, a Corben Baby Ace, a Piper Supercub, and a couple of American Legend AL3’s.
A ten year hiatus from flying taildraggers resulted in losing my essential taildragger reflexes. Retraining those reflexes provided me the opportunity to analyze the training process and to develop the reflex oriented approach presented in The art of Avoiding Ground Loops.
I claim no superior piloting ability or teaching skills, and I am quite sure there are many taildragger pilots out there better than me. However, I also know that many taildragger pilots are less experienced, and that many of those pilots have valid doubts about their ability to control their taildraggers. I sincerely hope my careful articulation of what I have learned about flying taildraggers will be of assistance to them.
Buy my book.
This website contains useful information about avoiding ground loops and departure stalls, but, for the complete story, read The art of Avoiding Ground Loops, available soon on Amazon.com and perhaps also through this website.
The Art of Avoiding Ground Loops identifies 13 essential taildragger reflexes that are the building blocks of each taildragger skill, and suggests a training program to develop each reflex individually, in a manner that eliminates most of the risk normally encountered in conventional tailwheel training programs and during the practice that continues long after the tailwheel endorsement has been granted.