I think what Chris means is one less thing to go wrong on landing. Making this decision when I first started building was a no brainer for me and I choose to have Tri-gear from the beginning. Chris is doing the right thing by questioning and evaluating his own abilities and then configuring his plane to that mission. Yes there may be some set up time in the building and there is certainly a bit of maintainence. Nothing that should sway the decision from one to the other over the safety of your own mission and abilities. The same thought process should be applied to retract gear also. There are may more talented people than I and may of those have become gear up victims. A new (or maybe experinced) tail dragger pilot can have an unintended ground loop or a prop strike when conditions overcome the talents or anticipation of conditions. At least the nose gear keeps the prop off the ground in all but the worst case events. IMHO Joe Horton
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Prata via KRnet" <krnet at list.krnet.org> Hi All, I could search the newsletter archive, but figured I'd throw it out here. Is there a fixed tri-gear option for the KR1? I'm not tail wheel trained. Trigear would mean one less thing that can go wrong since the KR1 is somewhat tricky to land anyway from what I am reading. Thanks! _______________________________________________
