It's Friday, right???

[Richard Flanders]

Tailwheel endorsement? There is such a thing? Guess I should get one at some point. I bought my plane from a helo pilot friend in Anchorage. We cut a broom stick off in the hangar and used it for a back seat stick and I did 3 touch and goes from the back seat with my friend up front. It seemed easy enough so I gassed it up and headed for Fairbanks. I got to Fairbanks in winter darkness and about a half a mile out the engine quit and I dead sticked it in. Ran out of gas on my first solo tail dragger flite! Quite exciting for my first solo landing in it. I think that was my first and last perfect 3-point landing. There was still gas showing in the sight gauges but a very old issue dating back to when the plane was made the gas not as available as it should have been. Once on the ground it started up just fine and I taxied to parking, wondering just what the hell had just happened. The offending issue got remedied eventually.