Ever since I built my KR I have always had reservations about carrying adults as passengers due to the total weight of myself and a heavy passenger. I have taken my kids many times in the past and never had any problems with them. Tonight I was persuaded to carry an adult up for a ride in the KR. Between me and him there was 450 lbs of flesh in the cockpit and I had ten gallons of fuel on board and an outside them of 61 degrees.The take off run was of course longer than usual. I rotated at 85 and she left the runway. During climb out I kept the airspeed at 100 mph. The climb rate was indicating about 550 feet per minute. Much lower than when I fly solo. We continued to climb to 3500'. When we leveled off, the plane flew just as it does when I am flying solo. The biggest difference was the feeling of being cramped in the cockpit with an adult in there with me. After thirty minutes of enjoying the flight we returned for landing. I kept the airspeed up a little higher than normal and brought her on down for a fairly decent landing. I must admit id did not grease her in as I normally do. At about a foot off the pavement I kind of dropped her in for a nice firm landing. I thought I did pretty good with the extra weight in the plane. So for those of you wondering about KR performance, it will do just about anything you ask it to do. Who's next?
Mark Jones (N886MJ) Stevens Point, WI E-mail: flyk...@charter.net Web: www.flykr2s.com
