Mark, Its great to hear confidence on landing this little high-performance machine.
Since you have been the whole course, perhaps you can share with us your entry and landing techniques. Thanks, Dick Cocoa Beach -------------- Original message from "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net>: -------------- > KRnetHeads, > > I hit 100 hours in the KR today, during another 2.5 hour tour of local > airports. First to Guntersville, where I circled an old friend's house for > a few minutes taking pictures. I'll send him one with his Christmas card to > let him know the plane is finished. Then a few landings at Guntersville > airport, and then north to Fayetteville, TN, where I did about 12 more touch > and goes. I was the only guy there so I was just whipping around the > pattern. I punched the stopwatch on one run, and without doing anything > spectacular, did a pattern in less than three minutes, takeoff to takeoff. > That's hummin' in my book! Except for landings, I've been flying the thing > wide open most of the time. Towards the end I just bummed around a while > and looked at stuff on the ground, and then back to Hazel Green. Changed > the oil and washed the plane, ready for the cross country to my father's > farm for Christmas (although I plan to fly some more this week). > > The engine is still running great, although I have a small oil leak that I'm > too lazy to fix. The new oil cooler inlet was a big improvement. I'm > finally starting to feel like I know how to land this thing. As I was > getting out of the plane I said out loud, "I'm a KR PILOT now"... > > Mark Langford, Harvest, AL > see homebuilt airplane at http://www.N56ML.com > email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
