Joe,
You are in the process of enjoying what this experimantal stuff is
all about..............Bobby
> Guys
> I was in withdrawal. It had been a week already. But got in a 30 min
> flight at the end of the day on a crystal clear sky. It was still a
> little bumpy yet and a little more wind than I had been in. About 10kts
> out of the WNW. I try little things on each flight and this time I had
> installed a small trim tab to the left aileron to see if it would pick it
> up just a tad. I need to bend it a little bit more as it did not seem to
> have any effect. I finally got around to trying a 100K resistor on the
> tach line of the EIS. I tried a number of different resistors and PR
> settings with each resistor and came to the same conclusion that a couple
> other guys came to. The 100K resistor gives the closest reading to the
> Sun tach that I was using on a P/R 3. The EIS is now very close to
> correct and the dancing around of numbers has settled way down. It only
> varies 20 to 30 rpm's instead of the 2 to 300 it was jumping. It stayed
> very steady for the full 30 min flight and was accurate with the Sun tach
> in all ranges. The Sun tach has served it's purpose and is removed from
> the panel.
> It was interesting to come home tonight to 150 plus e-mail, many
> about X wind landings. I did about a 20 degree cross tonight from the
> right and I honestly can not say exactly how I performed it. I remember
> that after turning finial I let it crab into the wind and that tells me
> how much cross I have to deal with. After that I think that I perfer
> looking straight down the center line and most likely went to a wing low
> into the wind and held center line with rudder. I also noticed that the
> sink rate seemed excessive during finial in this configuration at close
> to 700/min. I had to add just a touch of power just before the numbers to
> clear the end and help arrest the sink rate. You need to be quick with
> rudder when adding power and then taking it back out. I was in ground
> effect already and was a little left of center but the KR responded well
> with some quick and very small imputes right back to center and a nice
> little flare, no chirp and best of all no side loads on the mains. I have
> gotten better at holding the nose off and it slows down better with the
> nose up.
> I followed a Lancair in and found he is hangered across from me.
> I told him my KR wanted to be a Lancair when it grew up. He laughed.
> BTW- some early photos of Lance Neubert and his KR in on of this
> month's Mag's, Either Kitplane or Sport Aviation. I forget which.
> N357CJ- 19.2 hours and counting (with a nitride crank)
> Joe Horton, Coopersburg, Pa.
> joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com
>
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