I wonder if the same would happen if you were already in a nose down
configuration as when your on final. I look forward to additional feedback
from Larry.
Dean Cooper
Jacksonville, FL
Email me at dean_coo...@bellsouth.net
See my KR project at www.geocities.com/djramccoop1/KR2_Home.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net>
To: "KR builders and pilots" <kr...@mylist.net>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 10:23 AM
Subject: KR>Fw: Pitch down in slips
See message below from Miles Humphrey...
----- Original Message -----
From: Miles Humphrey
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 10:38 PM
Subject: Pitch down in slips
Mark
I would like to tell you about something I heard about the pitch down in
a slip. I went to talk to a person whose name I have misplaced, but he is
the owner of Sky King Aviation at Chandler Field in Mesa, AZ, and is an
instructor, flies anything multi-engine, jet, Bonanza, RV, Lancair, and many
others and says the most interesting, most fun and neatest of them all is
the KR!!!!. BUT--he was ferrying one to Maryland, packed in with his
Father, when, in cruise, he noticed the ball over to one side, so he applied
right rudder, the ball went to the corner, he pressed harder on the rudder
and the plane pitched down so violently that he hit his head on the
canopy-the more rudder, the worse it became. Not knowing what was happening,
he let go of all controls and the plane recovered immediately, and in so
doing noticed that his foot had slipped over on the LEFT rudder pedal on the
pasenger side, so he was pressing left when he wanted to use right and
thought he WAS using right. His explanation was that in cruise the KR is
trying to fly tail high and the HS is therefore holding the tail down , but
when he swung the plane sideways, the HS must have gotten blanked out so
that it was no longer holding the tail down so up it went! And he is
pretty sure of his diagnosis. If this had happened at a low altitude, he
would have bought the farm. So a slip, at least a strong one , could be
dangerous on approach, since Larry is experiencing exactly the same thing.
The two descriptions of the circumstances and the plane's reaction are
strikingly similar. If you would like to talk to this man about it he said
he knew Lee Van Dyke of Mesa and that might be a way to contact him. I
apologise for bothering you directly but I think this could be important.
This thing Dana has started might even evolve into a sort of regional
EAA Convention- and he's just the guy that can handle it!
Miles Humphrey_______________________________________
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