I think you need to get a new flight advisor. The big mistake I made is
to stop building my KR-1 back in 1970, it was coming along good but some
of my flight advisors advised that i would kill myself in it because it
would be too sensitive in pitch. But i read in 2005 of this guy on
KR-net that had been flying his for more than 20 years and it shows him
upside down in it, but he said he taxied it for 10 hours before he flew
it because of the pitch. So keep on taxing it until you get used to it
before you fly it. Just think of all the fun I could have had if I had
not listened to my flight advisors, man, 35 years in a KR.
Jim
Sanford Fl.
On Mon, 16 May 2005 21:50:46 -0500 "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net>
writes:
> KRnetHeads,
>
> I've already made a lot of friends out at MDQ. Chris, the A&P that
> held the
> flashlight for me last night while we installed the wings, dropped
> by every
> half hour or so to see if I needed a hand, and a new guy came by and
> pretty
> much made a day of it, helping me remove the wings again so I could
> route
> the cables around the pullies at the roots. I'd forgotten to do
> that last
> night in all the excitement. They not only bought me a BBQ lunch,
> but
> "flew" to get it and insisted that I stay and keep rigging the
> controls so I
> could taxi test before quitting time. They bought lunch because I
> was the
> "entertainment" for the day. Everybody there loves the Corvair,
> based on
> sound alone, and nobody's actually seen it yet! There's a picture
> that my
> 10 year old daughter took at
> http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/05051642m.jpg
> .
>
> I need a little advice here. I got the controls rigged and did
> about 10
> runs down the runway today, and fortunately only almost lost it
> once. I
> think I had one wheel off the runway completely (it's "only" 100'
> wide).
> The last two runs I just gave it a good bit of throttle and got the
> tail up
> immediately, and then backed it down to slightly above idle to keep
> it up
> 3/4 of the way down. Towards the end I'd slow it down enough to let
> the
> tail drop, and at that point it got real interesting, but I
> maintained
> control.
>
> My Flight Advisor guy said he wouldn't do high speed tests at
> all...his
> theory being that it's way too dangerious to go through that
> transition
> period repeatedly, when I could be flying it for an hour between
> each of
> these flirts with disaster. But I definitely got better as the day
> went on.
> The thing taxis great. At one point the tailwheel quit working, so
> steering
> became a real problem. I parked it and took a look back in the
> fuselage and
> found the cable lying loose on the floor, with no evidence of there
> ever
> having been a nut on the connection, much less a cotter pin. The
> other side
> had no cotter pin either, so I remedied that and went back to the
> runway for
> more.
>
> At one point Chris and Mike appeared with scissors saying "4:19 PM,
> first
> flight...let's have that T-shirt". I don't know that I was flying,
> but I
> wouldn't be surprised. About two more days of this and I might
> start
> thinking "if I've survived this many runs, I could probably take off
> and
> land it". Anyway, what do y'all KR taildragger pilots think I
> should be
> doing to prepare myself for first flight? Is tail up all the way
> down the
> thing to do, or maybe up and down and up and down would be
> better...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama
> see homebuilt airplane at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
> email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
>
>
>
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