> I do >have flaps but need to test them further before using them at full >deflection on landing. >Joe Horton
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Joe, Move "test flaps" up to the top of your flight test plan. Adding drag in the landing phase will make a totally different airplane out of the KR in the way it handles on speed control and approach attitude. I didn't plan on using my speed brake on the first flight until I made my first "missed approach". One approach was enough to convince me I needed some drag in the landing phase. I went back to altitude, checked out the speed brake, then came back to land. All but one or two of my 400+ landings since then have been with the speed brake out. I'm convinced that the reason that hundreds or thousands of KR have been built and few ever fly is the charateristics of the airplane in the landing phase. When the airplane pushes the envelope of the pilots abilities on every flight, he/she will soon quit flying it. If they all had a way of adding drag for landing, they'd be thick as flys! Larry Flesner
