Gear Choice Thoughts

[Hawkertech]

My understanding is the normal cabane gear is bungie cord damped. More springy if dropped in and more maintenance. The monster shock is cabane, but with the shock absobers, that provide mor damping and less bounce. And grove gear in spring Aluminum that can be repositioned the either tricycle or tail dragger, tri gear comes with the grove gear. Also check your insurance from reading on here, that a low time pilot with a taildragger the insurance can be rather high

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[GuppyWN]

Buy the spring gear and move on. Maintenance free. Clean. Faster.

[flipfloplife]

Hawker -- that's kind of my analysis as well -- the monster is like an upgraded cabane. and i think the regular cabane can get eliminated. I got quoted $1500 on conventional gear at Falcon -- my underwhelming amount of tailwheel time probably hurt me? But I don't think that's too outrageous. In the ballpark enough to go ahead and do the build anyhow.

Guppy -- that's kinda where i'm headed here... just don't want to set myself up to be a kangaroo if there's a choice. but you're right -- when 10mph is 8% of your overall airspeed it makes a big difference.

anyone flown both?

[efwd]

I agree with littlecricket. I put the tires on that came with the kit and they detract from the appearance IMHO (unless your putting wheel pants on). I think the 22" tire is the point where the plane appears correct. If your doing real back country stuff I bet the 27" would be great. I like the way they look too. I would buy those myself but I am not able to justify the increase in cost just to make the plane look a bit better and more capable in the back country that I don't do. S&R uses 27" tires. They certainly felt good on the unimproved strips that I got to land on while training there.

[ratc]

Blimey, that's some solution!