This is a question that many seasoned nose-wheel pilots might ask. The answer is really two-fold: on the practical front, tailwheel machines generally have less drag and more readily lend themselves to operating out of short, rough strips, which in itself, opens up a whole other world, away from the busy airports and back to a kind of flying that you might have thought no longer existed. Perhaps more reason to fly a taildragger than this, however, is that it uncovers a multitude of new delights to the pilot and a level of satisfaction in their flying that is just not possible to get from the usual tricycle gear machines.
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