Rick
Don is correct, and I can tell by you attitude you will make a good KR
pilot. I only had about 45 hours total time when I began flying mine, and I
don't consider myself to be above average in the skill department. The best
advice I can offer is to find and get to know a few flying KR pilots in your
area. There are more around than you would think. Carefully look over their
aircraft and ask them to critique yours. They will be a far better resource
than your dynosaur.
Rich Seifert N56SR KR-2 pilot for 20 years now.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Chisholm" <chizmsupholst...@rogers.com>
To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: KR> discouraging
> What you ran across was a dynosaur, I had one tell me one time that they
had a homebuilt at their airport one time fortunately it crashed and then
proceeded to lecture me as you got lectured, meanwhile he had a ratty old
Cessna 172 that looked like it hadn't been flown in years. He reached his
height, don't take what he said to heart and don't let him bring you down.
When Ken Rand did his first flight on his KR1 he only had 35 hrs. total time
>
> Rick and Pam <d...@defnet.com> wrote: 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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