Vaughan, What you are seeing is various guys espousing their preferences for landing their KRs. The fact is, in the taildragger connfiguration, it lands easily in either three point or wheel landings. With the wide gear stance of the Diehl gear, it's not so prone to ground loops. I'm sure it's a pussycat as a tri-gear as well.
When building your KR, do yourself a favor and install some sort of deployable drag. Whether it is flaps or belly board isn't really important. But the cleaner you build the plane, the more you will want some additional drag to help with the landings. Flaps or a belly board will drop the nose on approach so you have a better view of the runway environment, and will reduce the float of the plane while transitioning from flying to rolling. Before someone jumps on this and flames me about how well their KR lands without flaps, keep in mind, that I flew my KR 500 hours before I added flaps. Much like Ken Rand said, "I never knew how much I needed flaps until I installed them." Jeff Scott Los Alamos, NM KR N1213W & SuperCub N143W http://jscott.comlu.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Vaughan Thomas Sent: 04/20/11 11:26 PM To: KRnet Subject: KR> (no subject) There has been a bit of diiscussion about landing taildraggers on here,is it that difficult? how do they compare to trigears? As an inexperienced pilot ,have I bitten off more than I can chew? Vaughan Thomas. Hamilton, New Zealand
