I know I've made comments about pitch sensitivity before, but I've tempered
my attitude ever since I flew Jim Faughn's KR.  There are sensitive ones and
then there are "light" ones.  I could see how you could crawl into Jim's or
Troy's and fly it for the first time with no problem at all, and learn to
love it in short order.  I've flown others that made me think I was going to
rip the wings off, and others somewhere in the middle.  I suspect CG had a
lot to do with this, and I think Jim would tell you that his CG is biased
toward the forward end.  As long as the CG kept forward, rather than aft,  I
don't have a problem with KR pitch control.  It's a small, short-coupled
plane, so yes, if you lean forward the pitch is going to change, but's
that's just the way it is.

 But like I said, I've only flown a few, a little at a time, so I'm no
expert. I don't guess it will be long before a bunch of us wannabees will be
real-live KR pilots, and we'll tell you how it is with the new generation of
KRs.  Other comments are more than welcome...

Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL
N56ML "at"  hiwaay.net
see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford


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