Pierre et all, I had done the slight extention of the nose on my trigear right from inception without ever any real concern. I only cut the amount off the bottom part of the verticle part of the gear leg before drilling any mounting holes to get it postioned correctly for prop clearance which incidently I deemed for myself to be 7" clearance with the trigear loaded and a 60" prop. I only had the 60" prop for a while and most of the 800 hours have been with a 56" prop so I have 9" clearance. Back to the point - I do not know the actual slope of the plane in the standing still position but will check tonight with a smart level but I do know that it is far below the lift off angle of attack and for the most part I always land as if it was a tail dragger landing in the 3 point stance to bleed speed as quickly as possiable and the nose goes down as the speed is bleed off. Visibility on landing is more of an issue than taxing or rotating for lift off will ever be. (for a 2s- a standard kr2 may be a bit more difficult)Joe HortonCoopersburg PA ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: "Pierre" <pierre at drafts.co.za> To: <krnet at list.krnet.org> Subject: KR> Prop clearance now extended nose gear List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 12:13:45 +0200
Hi all. In response to Stef's comment about extending the nose gear (on a tri-cycle) to just below take off attitude. I have done just that, but I am still a fair distance from starting tests on the KR2S. Have lots of glassing, sanding and painting to do, but I would also love to hear comments on this nose high attitude on tri-gear KR2. Mine is (Wild guess) approximately 15-20 degrees up. but I will attempt to do some measuring later. It allows me to see the ground about 20-30 meters in front of the plane when sitting in a normal sitting attitude, but with my neck stretched forward. Take care and a blessed 2014 to all. Pierre _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options
