Tri Gear or Tail Wheel?

[tom89]

Which do you prefer? Tail wheel or tri gear? And why?

[Dorsal]

I like my "trycycle", not too say it is better or worse but it does make landing and taxiing a relaxing experience. This topic inevitably leads to the realization it's mostly a matter of personal taste. It also works just fine off the pavement

[rogerh12]

I highly suggest you ask your insurance company about what the price difference is between insuring a tail wheel plane and a nose gear plane before deciding !!!!!

Roger

[kmach]

I have a taildragger , I have never flown the tri gear version. I picked a taildragger for the simple reason I want to fly in the winter with wheel skis. It is very simple to rig the taildragger with skis, I don't think it is even feasible with a castering nosewheel to setup a ski configuration that will float on any amount of snow depth, but I am not totally familiar with the tri gear. I guess an option for deeper snow and tri gear would be full lotus floats, people with them say they work well on snow !

[akarmy]

Why pick just one when you can have both in the same plane?

[Monocock]

You wouldn't do this to your mountain bike.....



So why do it to your Kitfox.....!

[t j]

You're playing with fire.

[DanB]

This thread topic always tends to end up in negative comments back and forth. Feel free to answer the question without placing a thorn under the other kids saddle. This has been a public service announcement

[Monocock]

Touchy !!!!

[DanB]

Touchy !!!!

Correction...responsible moderator doing his job

Side note: Personally I like the looks of the tail dragger over the trigear. I have no tail wheel time so my decision hinged on doing the training wheel now, paying lower insurance, then picking up my tail wheel cert and sticking the little wheel in the back. I like the idea of being able to land in remote spots, not to mention becoming a better pilot learning how to move my feet.

Many of the guys here in the Desert Fox Squadron have endless hours as tail dragger pilots but simply choose to use what is proven to be "safer" with the missions they fly... not a bunch of off-field landings. That being said, many of them still land in the "rough", keep the training wheel up, and do very well. To each his own.