If you're hooking up with a group of people you know reasonably well, and one of *them* has dual controls, maybe an option would be to swap planes for a flight or two. Or if there are more than two of you around, maybe you can ride with someone else and use their dual controls for your first flights.
When you're starting out you should be flying in a two-plane formation only, and in that case I think if your instructor only had pitch and roll for an "emergency exit" that might be just fine. It is difficult to demonstrate position changes with rudder if you don't have them though, so you'll need to learn that part in another plane.
That being said... I've seen some very slick rear rudder pedal setups in the tandem RV's. With the rudder cable running down the side of the fuselage, it's open to a number of options for adding a control to it. I recall one had interior panels that hid the cables, but had a slot in the panel with a horizontal shaft sticking out of it, and a brace that ran back ahead of the pedal into the shaft. All you could see was the pedal, which was triangular and looked like a doorstop laying on its side. I seem to recall the owner telling me there was a channel inside the panel that the pedal ran along, but I have no idea what the setup was. It looked really clean. Maybe someone else here has photos of a similar arrangement.
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Rob Prior
1996 RV-6 "Tweety" C-FRBP (formerly N196RV)
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