I have about 280TT with 18hours in taildraggers and my IFR rating, plus 40 hours in Mooney Retracts (Complex). (My KR has the retract).
When I asked Sky Smith about moving from ground only to in-motion coverage, they needed 100 hours tailwheel time, plus 25 hours in type before they would cover me "in motion". I haven't taken them up on that. Taildraggers are fun to fly. I have flown a Cessna 140 briefly, a Piper Cub, and a Aeronca Champ. I recieved my endorsement in the Champ, but it was so long ago it doesn't count for much now. I'm considering getting some different tailwheel time locally before doing the flight testing in my KR. My BFR is overdue, so I need to see what it would cost to do my BFR in a tailwheel, and try to kill two birds with one check. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 07:40:11 -0500 To: "KR builders and pilots" <kr...@mylist.net> Subject: Re: KR>Fixed verses retract > So far this discussion hasn't mentioned insurance. If you are not > tailwheel endorsed, you're going to have to spend some money to get that > way, and then may have trouble getting hull insurance at all until you have > something like 50 hours of tailtragger time. > > And there's no question that the tri-gear is easier to takeoff and land. > But I keep hearing that taildraggers make you a better pilot, and that's > what I want to be. > > I'm building a taildragger, but I don't find the tri-gear ugly. I sure > wouldn't call Bobby Muses's plane ugly. Tri-gear makes it look like a more > substantial "real" airplane, in my opinion. > > And the number one reason NOT to use retracts is that you can't possibly > forget to put the gear down if it's fixed! > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL > N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html -- ____________________________________________ http://www.operamail.com Get OperaMail Premium today - USD 29.99/year Powered by Outblaze
