Good Mark, that the way to really get to know your airplane and as time goes along there will be other things that you will want to try. That's what I found also 500' it was safe and touchy at 400' Good Luck and Happy Flying! Adrian
Mark Langford wrote: > Steve Eberhart wrote: > > >>Hi Bob, you too? My ride with Marty was one non-stop roller coaster >>ride. He kept his hand about two inches over mine and kept dropping it >>to stabilize the stick. That was my first KR ride. Not the way to gain >>new builders IMHO. > > > But now there's the "next generation KR", which an 11 year old girl who's > never flown anything can fly immediately with no PIOs. Even Bob Glidden can > handle it! If you build a KR2S there's no reason to fret over first flights > anymore. Especially if you make the CG "non-volatile" like I did. > > I'm definitely up for the California Gathering. Claire and I have been > planning a desert flight for years now. Like I said, would you want to miss > the California Gathering? > > I did about 20 takeoffs and landings yesterday, the last 5 being landbacks > simulating emergency landings. I made the first four easily, which were > from 500' AGL, but couldn't handle the 400' attempt. Now I know what my > limits are. This dictates that I fly off to the right (in LP traffic) so > that when I do the 180 I don't have to do much of an S turn. I'm sure my > flight instructor would not approve of me not following the centerline, and > I'm sure that violates somebody's idea of a regulation or good flying habit, > but that's the way I'm going to do it until I get over 500'. And today I > did about 10 more touch-and-go's. I was able to land and break ground again > before I got to the "target point" (I'm sure somebody objects to that as > well, and I don't care), and played around the local area, just throttled > back and looking at stuff on the ground. I did some more stalls at various > speeds and configurations (like during a full blown slip to see how much I > can get away with on landing). I parked it with 299.1 hours on it. I may > have to break 300 tomorrow... > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > >
