Originally Posted by
HSLD
Single pilot aircraft with a TV screen to watch what's going on outside is a bad idea. When operating on any airport surface, please keep you all of your attention outside the aircraft. If you taxied your aircraft into a stationary object, learning the geometry of your aircraft is the answer.
Go right ahead. Be a pig-headed arrogant know-it-all "This would never happen to me" person, if you wish. Have you ever actually taxiied a PA-12? I didn't think so. When on grass, which is not like the concrete you are used to, the grass is not always perfectly level, hence, the aircraft can list to one side, and no matter how much geometry you know, you simply can't see what's on the other side of the wing, from the cockpit, unless you can see right through your wings. Mine were covered with opaque painted doped fabric, not Saran wrap.
Please show me where you read that I suggested "operating by watching the tv screen"?
A tail-mounted camera would be a tool that I would use very infrequently, like when I need to see around the wings in close quarters, but on those rare occasions when I would use it, it might save me some grief. It wouldn't help you though, because your mind is closed.