Re: KR> today's flight, and Jim Hill's KR2 to KR2S stretch

2020-04-21 Thread Tommy Waymack via KRnet
l mod to handle both. Maybe. > When the engine sputters while barreling down the runway, it gets your > attention. > > Roger > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > From: Mark Langford via KRnet > Sent: Monday, April 20, 2020 8:18 PM > To: Flesner via KRnet > Cc: Mark L

Re: KR> today's flight, and Jim Hill's KR2 to KR2S stretch

2020-04-21 Thread RB via KRnet
> today's flight, and Jim Hill's KR2 to KR2S stretch Larry Flesner wrote: > I'm wondering if this is something I want to be flying behind at my Just a remindermake dang sure it will run wide open for at half a minute before you commit to a takeoff! If it'll do

Re: KR> today's flight, and Jim Hill's KR2 to KR2S stretch

2020-04-21 Thread Flesner via KRnet
On 4/21/2020 7:39 AM, Flesner via KRnet wrote: On 4/20/2020 8:18 PM, Mark Langford via KRnet wrote: Just a remindermake dang sure it will run wide open for at half a minute before you commit to a takeoff!  If it'll do that, you'll probably get enough altitude to turn back, especially if you

Re: KR> today's flight, and Jim Hill's KR2 to KR2S stretch

2020-04-21 Thread Flesner via KRnet
On 4/20/2020 8:18 PM, Mark Langford via KRnet wrote: Just a remindermake dang sure it will run wide open for at half a minute before you commit to a takeoff!  If it'll do that, you'll probably get enough altitude to turn back, especially if you climb out at a 30-40 degree angle, to make it

Re: KR> today's flight, and Jim Hill's KR2 to KR2S stretch

2020-04-20 Thread sparksfly2ms--- via KRnet
I had the same thing happen many years ago while doing a first flight on a friends KR-2. Ran good on the ground and on climb out but, when I picked up speed, it would just die down. Landed Ok. It was a Posa carb and was adjusted lean on the ground but when we picked up speed, the ram air made

Re: KR> today's flight, and Jim Hill's KR2 to KR2S stretch

2020-04-20 Thread Mark Langford via KRnet
I wrote: > hangar. What we figured out was that the high inlet pressure into carb > throat had introduced a higher pressure into the float bowl vent. Sorrythat "float bowl vent" is nonsense, as the Posa doesn't have a floator a float bowl! I wrote that before I realized it was a P

Re: KR> today's flight, and Jim Hill's KR2 to KR2S stretch

2020-04-20 Thread Mark Langford via KRnet
Larry Flesner wrote: > I'm wondering if this is something I want to be flying behind at my Just a remindermake dang sure it will run wide open for at half a minute before you commit to a takeoff! If it'll do that, you'll probably get enough altitude to turn back, especially if you climb