The one thing most people don,t tell you about a KR is put your arm on your leg or some thing that does not move and just move your wrist. I had 125 hrs, 10 hrs tail wheel in a PA12. before I flew my KR. I would take someone flying and let them fly for about 5 minutes or until I would start to get sick. Then I would show them about bracing the arm and all would settle down. Some folks feel they need a long stick, Keep it short. Fly an RV tail wheel and they are just about the same. On landing if the wheels are properly aligned it will go straight done the runway almost by itself. I have had the opportunity to test fly 4 KR's and it worked with all 4. Have fun try it again. If there are 2 of you in the plane you are properly real close to aft CG anyway.
--- On Sun, 2/27/11, Andy Mckevitz <amckev...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Andy Mckevitz <amckev...@yahoo.com> Subject: KR> Kr pilot Salute flight To: kr...@mylist.net List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Sunday, February 27, 2011, 9:40 AM After flying 2 kr2 planes last week, one of which is an 'S' model, I have concluded that I need to be a better pilot. Until I flew one, I had no idea how difficult it is. I'm an infant 300hr pilot, commercial, IFR, aerobatics, high performance and tailwheel endorsed. It took me 45min at altitude to control pitch sensitivity to where I completely stopped the oscillations in climbs decents and turns enough to be comfortable and satisfied to fly the plane and not the reverse. Keep in mind the closest thing that I've put time in close to a kr is a decathalon, and I am confortable in that. After 2hrs I felt okay to touch ground effect with the kr and progressively brought myself to touch and go. My problem is that I only have about ten hours of tailwheel time, and that needs expansion before I fly a kr again. Yes, both that I flew where taildraggers. I do feel comfortable soloing a kr, allbeit at a 150' wide runway, not my 35' wide paved airpark strip with side obstacles where I call home. This could improve with time, however, I have elected to build a couple hundred hours of 'other' tailwheel plane time before trying this again. Kr's have a special place with me as there is nothing like it. The Kr grin, right! A tailwind pilot told me that if I landed a kr, I can land just about anything. Its without a doubt in my mind that if you fly a kr2 from no mods to full mods, you are among the best... and that means those bonanza pilots better keep quiet! haha Salute! Andy _______________________________________ 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
