It's been my experience that people that don't learn how to fly a
taildragger think that everyone else has the same problem.
Get yourself a competent tailwheel instructor to teach you how to fly a
taildragger any tailwheel airplane will do just get some time in one.
Then if you have someone around to give you a checkout in your K.R. go
for it .
No matter what type of taildragger I've ever flown I've always heard oh
that airplane a ground looping S.O.B. to which I've found out is B.S.
Ground loop? oh yea I've Done it however it was my fault.
I don't clam to be an expert that's just been my experience in 20700 +
there's always the nea sayers don't let them discourage you
----- Original Message -----
From: "VIRGIL N SALISBURY" <virg...@juno.com>
To: <kr...@mylist.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: KR> discouraging
> Send this to EAA National, Virg
>
> On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:32:10 -0600 "Rick and Pam" <d...@defnet.com>
> writes:
>> Heres my story to date. I bought a KR2 last month from grand
>> rapids Mi
>> (Im in Defiance Ohio). basicly it needed a seat and all the
>> small things
>> that these planes need. so Ive been working on it for a month
>> now and I
>> figured I would take it to the local airport and rent a small
>> hanger so
>> I could mount the wings and do some taxi testing, well as luck
>> would
>> have it 2 hangars down is THE local eaa guy,(white beard,eaa
>> tech rep,
>> ap mech, 2 taildraggers sitting in his hangar) basicly the whole
>>
>> package, so Im thinking man what a great resource 2 hangars down
>> from
>> me. I go down and introduce myself and tell him my story and he
>> proceeds
>> to tell me in short that unless I have 5 to 10 thousand hours of
>>
>> taildragger time that I shouldn't attempt to fly the kr2. He
>> then went
>> on and on about why I should buy a cessna 150 cause as a
>> certified
>> aircraft. I would be able to just "fly it" (that would be the
>> only thing
>> I could do to it) To top it all off he then lets me know that
>> the last
>> thing we need is someone crashing on the runway.....wouldn't do
>> our
>> Image any good he says, Now Im no idiot and I know that Im not
>> Tom
>> Cruise in top gun, as a matter of fact Im not even a pilot as of
>> yet
>> {although Im working on it} I know when Im talking to someone
>> with a
>> lot more experiance than me to listen but I got to believe that
>> this guy
>> really doesn't like home built aircraft ,which is what I thought
>> the eaa
>> was all about.He practicly had me talked intoselling it before I
>> left.On
>> the way home I realized that this was the type of guy that made
>> me look
>> at experimentals to start with...I understand I need some
>> taildragger
>> time , I understand it will require maintenance, I understand
>> that
>> things go wrong, I accept these as challenges to be overcome.
>> WHAT I
>> DONT EXCEPT IS PEOPLE TELLING ME I CANT DO IT. anyways I just had
>> to vent
>>
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