Must say I am a bit nervous thinking about me flying the KR2 for the 1st time. I will do some taxi work first and then fast runs with the tail up. After that take off and go up high to do a stall to calculate the lowest indicated speed over the numbers. ( stall plus 25%) I will pick a day without wind and keep the nose up on round out until the stick is in my belly and try to put the tail wheel down first. I am scared to start with wheelers because of the sensitive pitch. I fly a Hatz Biplane for the last 15 years and it is almost impossible to make a bad landing with that. I also fly other tail draggers like the VP2 (easy) The Kitfox and Bushbaby is not that easy but after a few years I fly them relatively well by now. Landing on sandbanks in the river and the beach is no problem. The thing is with Hatz you sit behind the C of G and can feel what the plane is doing. It is not the case with the Kitfox. How does the KR2 compare to a Kitfox in terms of landing? Is it mush more difficult to fly?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 2:34 PM Subject: Re: KR> Landing KR's > Willie van der Walt wrote: > >> I am wondering I you can not flare enough, as the speed bleeds down to >> touch >> the tailwheel 1st. You should not be bouncing then. I do it with my VP2 >> and >> the landings looks like perfect 3 pointers. > > That's about what I do. Sometimes the tailwheel hits first, but the locals > call them 3 pointers anyway, probably to be charitable. I'm going to add > some 3" gear extensions shortly (vertical plates between gear leg bracket > and axle), but it probably won't be in time for the Gathering, since I have > a bunch of stuff like transponder installation to do first. This will allow > slightly slower landings (1.5 more degrees of incidence), 3 more inches of > prop clearance, and even less visibility over the nose while taxiing, but > that's overrated anyway. : ) > > I knocked out another trip to my father's farm yesterday, landing in grass > that had seed heads about 24" tall. You could see the path I cut through > it! That's the last time I show up unannounced! A great landing though, > and all around another great KR trip, doing about 145 mph TAS while burning > 4 gph at 9500'. The new engine is running very smoothly, and with 15 hours > on it now, I think the rings have seated and it's ready to go to the > Gathering... > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > 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 >
