Russ, The retractable gear if it is the original version has some bad points. They have been known to collapse on touchdown causing a belly slide....not good. Putting fixed gear on would be a smart move. You would not have to worry about remembering to drop that gear to land it any more. Plus, that is just one more kiss (keep it safe & simple) system. The cost of the gear depends on what you want. Diehl conventional for example would be about $500 for a new set and you would have to cut into the wings to mount them. Diehl's tri-gear is about $1000 which also takes cutting into the wing to mount plus adding a nose gear bracket. Then there are conventional gear made by Grove which would mount to the bottom of the fuselage with minimal modifications. Sorry, I do not know the cost of the Grove gear. Maybe someone else will give you an approximation on that.
Mark Jones (N886MJ) Wales, WI USA E-mail me at flyk...@wi.rr.com Visit my KR-2S CorvAIRCRAFT web site at http://mywebpage.netscape.com/n886mj/homepage.html > Hey gang, I'm looking at a KR2 with retractable gear and the guy was telling > me how much it would cost to put fixed gear on it. Is that something I > should consider? Is the retractable gear bad on the KR2's? > Thanks, Russ Houck. > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html >
