How embarrsassing for you Peter, but at least you continued on with flying training and made a very successful and interesting career from it.Well on the 18th September 1951, on my fourth flight at No. 3 FTS Feltwell, I got the landing all wrong and pushed a wheel up through the main spar of Percival Prentice VS243...A pretty sad moment in my life which did not endear my instructor. I had a change of instructor the following month!
Initially I found that taildraggers were not as easy to land as some might think, Once I ballooned up on a three pointer with the Auster and Al Cree had to open the throttle quickly to avoid one hell of a bounce!!
That was on my second landing with the Auster but thereafter I was a lot wiser to its' handling qualities.Regards
Nigel.