While at Mount Vernon I had a moment to chat with Mark about a training aircraft. I know it is a long shot but we might be able to get some donations up and put together a wide body KR with full duals to do transition training with. It doesn't have to be fast. We can get a LODA from the FAA to legally charge for flight / transition instruction to keep up the airplane or start paying back people who donate or invested in it. We could have a couple different instructors that would be approved for training in the airplane. I am a CFII with KR experience in both Martin Robert's KR and in Steve Alderman's KR. I have never flown one with a VW though. Marty and Steve had loaned me their airplanes when they had them. I am one of the very few people who has borrowed KR 2's.
I am working on my KR 2 again now and have promised to have it at the next Mount Vernon fly in. Mine will have an O-200 on it. It might be that we could set my airplane up for dual training when it is done. I already have dual sticks and pedals in it. I don't have dual throttles but that might be possible to add. My airplane is a standard width KR and I weight 235 so there would be limits on the weight of the other person were we to set my airplane for this mission. Should the idea be discussed? What are the groups thoughts on this? If we formed a 501 charitable corp we could get donations from other people and it would help us out as well. I am sure there is a KR out there somewhere that someone is wanting to see fly but knows they will never finish. Donating it and taking a tax loss might be one idea. I am sure we could get discounts on everything to put this together from sponsors that could be named on the side of the airplane. Victor Taylor CFII Irvington, AL
