gdenney wrote:
O.P. wrote:
I'll admit I've never flown in a cub, but looking inside them, it kinda looks like it would be a pain in the butt to Solo in them. I'm probably wrong.
Don't be put off by rear seat solo flying. Visibility wise on the ground, well, you may see a little more over the nose when sitting in the front, but not much more!
One you get over the "fear of uncertainty" regarding forward visibility, it will come naturally. It is really just a fear more than a reality. You need to clear the runway prior to takeoff regardless of the plane, and if you set up your approach correctly, you can see that the runway is clear until you actually flare. Tri-gear aircraft are not immune from taxiing accidents either. And I've even seen a car to car collision on a taxiway (both too busy watching for airplanes!), so sometimes things just happen. The few taildragger taxi accidents I've been close to would not have been solved by sitting in the front- one of them was a Cessna 195 hitting a car. Clearly the fault of the car driver, and these accidents seldom result in injuries.
Some aircraft like Stearmans are really blind on the ground, so you just make adjustments with a few S-turns and some common sense.
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