Well netters, a mystery from 1974 has been solved. I was wondering what ever happened to the crotchety old instructor that I took my first ever flight lesson with, ended up. On our first and second (last)flight with him, he kept telling me he couldn't understand why youngsters wanted to learn how to fly, and should just leave it to the "experienced" men, all the while pulling stall after stall through both training sessions. By any chance is this "AirGuru" with a bazillion hours 2 hangers down from you named Blehm?
Bob N339RJ Heaven Bound -----Original Message----- From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net] On Behalf Of Rick and Pam Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 5:32 PM To: KRnet Subject: KR> discouraging Heres my story to date. I bought a KR2 last month from grand rapids Mi (Im in Defiance Ohio). basicly it needed a seat and all the small things that these planes need. so Ive been working on it for a month now and I figured I would take it to the local airport and rent a small hanger so I could mount the wings and do some taxi testing, well as luck would have it 2 hangars down is THE local eaa guy,(white beard,eaa tech rep, ap mech, 2 taildraggers sitting in his hangar) basicly the whole package, so Im thinking man what a great resource 2 hangars down from me. I go down and introduce myself and tell him my story and he proceeds to tell me in short that unless I have 5 to 10 thousand hours of taildragger time that I shouldn't attempt to fly the kr2. He then went on and on about why I should buy a cessna 150 cause as a certified aircraft. I would be able to just "fly it" (that would be the only thing I could do to it) To top it all off he then lets me know that the last thing we need is someone crashing on the runway.....wouldn't do our Image any good he says, Now Im no idiot and I know that Im not Tom Cruise in top gun, as a matter of fact Im not even a pilot as of yet {although Im working on it} I know when Im talking to someone with a lot more experiance than me to listen but I got to believe that this guy really doesn't like home built aircraft ,which is what I thought the eaa was all about.He practicly had me talked intoselling it before I left.On the way home I realized that this was the type of guy that made me look at experimentals to start with...I understand I need some taildragger time , I understand it will require maintenance, I understand that things go wrong, I accept these as challenges to be overcome. WHAT I DONT EXCEPT IS PEOPLE TELLING ME I CANT DO IT. anyways I just had to vent _______________________________________ 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
