In my airplane as in life I prefer to see where I am going and avoid most obstacles instead of weaving around like a drunken sailor. I guess Dan just likes to drag his A$$ around. But seriously, other than personnel preference the nose wheel comes with a about a 5 mile and hour penalty depending on fairings. Joe Horton, Coopersburg,Pa
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dj Merrill via KRnet" <krnet at list.krnet.org> On 10/18/2015 6:47 AM, Dan Heath via KRnet wrote: > Make your > KR with a conventional gear. Since "conventional" means "ordinary, rather than different", and the vast majority of aircraft created today have the little wheel up front, wouldn't "conventional" now mean "nose wheel" by today's standards? ?*wink* -Dj