I got into some early spring winds with the KR the previous weekend. After meeting some friends for the $100 breakfast burrito, I got back to Los Alamos to find the winds 360@17G21 for landing runway 27. Correcting the anemometer for our 7150' altitude, that's 19G23 gusting up out of the canyon and across the runway (read strong up and down drafts). Before I rebuilt the tail on this KR I limited myself to 10 kt crosswinds in Los Alamos. With the additional rudder and better elevator control, this landing wasn't pretty, but the plane could have handled more as I didn't run out of controls.
I never thought of the KR as much of a crosswind airplane before, but as Joe demonstrated in his trigear, and me in my taildragger, they can handle quite a bit of crosswind. I love flying this airplane. Jeff Scott N1213W -- "joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com" <joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com> wrote: I also found my upper liimit to x wind. Sure am glad the runway was at least 60 ft wide. Wind at landing was 60 deg from left, 15 kts gusting to 25 kts. I had 3 little side ways skips with a lot of alieron and a lot of rudder input. I don't think I had all of it in, but I was more concerned about staying on the runway. That is more of an adrinalin rush than an engine out because I knew it was coming and was going to try it anyway. I did some other flying on Saturday- but that flight is better reported around the camp fire than in public forum. God, I love this plane. Joe Horton ____________________________________________________________ FTD.com Shop now and save $15 on Flowers and Gifts from FTD! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/u4MuScM2CQX96QwN3cpu5sjiKkyeaH05y5Q1cUH6XrxjzmlnU4Fo8/
