You have the right idea,I read Bill Rents page on KRnet about taxing his
KR-1 for ten hoursbefore he flew it but he flew it for more than Twenty
years, having a lot of fun. I had started one in the early seventies but
my friends said i would kill myself in it so I sold the project and lost
twenty years of fun. just make sure you have the pitch feel wit the tail
up before you fly and you will be OK.
Jim
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:25:32 +0200 "Willie van der Walt"
<touri...@intekom.co.za> writes:
> Must say I am a bit nervous thinking about me flying the KR2 for
> the 1st
> time. I will do some taxi work first and then fast runs with the
> tail up.
> After that take off and go up high to do a stall to calculate the
> lowest
> indicated speed over the numbers. ( stall plus 25%) I will pick a
> day
> without wind and keep the nose up on round out until the stick is in
> my
> belly and try to put the tail wheel down first. I am scared to start
> with
> wheelers because of the sensitive pitch. I fly a Hatz Biplane for
> the last
> 15 years and it is almost impossible to make a bad landing with
> that. I also
> fly other tail draggers like the VP2 (easy) The Kitfox and Bushbaby
> is not
> that easy but after a few years I fly them relatively well by now.
> Landing
> on sandbanks in the river and the beach is no problem. The thing is
> with
> Hatz you sit behind the C of G and can feel what the plane is doing.
> It is
> not the case with the Kitfox. How does the KR2 compare to a Kitfox
> in terms
> of landing? Is it mush more difficult to fly?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net>
> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net>
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 2:34 PM
> Subject: Re: KR> Landing KR's
>
>
> > Willie van der Walt wrote:
> >
> >> I am wondering I you can not flare enough, as the speed bleeds
> down to
> >> touch
> >> the tailwheel 1st. You should not be bouncing then. I do it
> with my VP2
> >> and
> >> the landings looks like perfect 3 pointers.
> >
> > That's about what I do. Sometimes the tailwheel hits first, but
> the
> locals
> > call them 3 pointers anyway, probably to be charitable. I'm
> going to
> add
> > some 3" gear extensions shortly (vertical plates between gear
> leg
> bracket
> > and axle), but it probably won't be in time for the Gathering,
> since I
> have
> > a bunch of stuff like transponder installation to do first.
> This will
> allow
> > slightly slower landings (1.5 more degrees of incidence), 3 more
> inches
> of
> > prop clearance, and even less visibility over the nose while
> taxiing,
> but
> > that's overrated anyway. : )
> >
> > I knocked out another trip to my father's farm yesterday,
> landing in
> grass
> > that had seed heads about 24" tall. You could see the path I
> cut
> through
> > it! That's the last time I show up unannounced! A great
> landing
> though,
> > and all around another great KR trip, doing about 145 mph TAS
> while
> burning
> > 4 gph at 9500'. The new engine is running very smoothly, and
> with 15
> hours
> > on it now, I think the rings have seated and it's ready to go to
> the
> > Gathering...
> >
> > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama
> > see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
> > email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
> >
> >
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