The way you explain your water landing is the same as an old gentleman explained to me how he put his Spitfire in the channel during the war. A good man in the airplane flying next to him was giving him hand signals on how to go about the landing after also warning him that he had thick smoke trailing out behind him. Pretty darn nice of the guy considering he was flying the ME109 that caused the damage in the first place.
Good to hear you and your aircraft made it safe and were both able to fly again. Toad --- On Mon, 4/20/09, Randy Smith <crz...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Randy Smith <crz...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: KR> Tri Gear Conversion To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 9:55 PM I have put my KR in the water. It left a bruise across my chest from the belt but nothing else happened. I set up for 65 mph until I was about 5 feet off the water. I pulled back hard until the tail-wheel hit. I stopped about 20 feet further. Still lacked 10 feet to shore. The folks at the airport watching said I put a splash up about 30 feet. All I know is when I came to a stop the plane was floating and I said to myself that was not bad at all. I had retracts but could not get them unlocked and still fly the plane. At that time we had pulled 5 planes out of the lake all where totaled. I had mine back in the air within a week. Fiberglass and wood floats. Remember the thing is called a boat stage for a reason. For those that were around in the early 90's know I went down a few times. I will tell you this,If you keep worrying about every little thing that can go wrong, flying is not for you. I have had a couple of friends that built planes and after constantly worrying about crashing they gave up flying. Don't mean to scare anyone off Just build it. If you are not comfortable with tail-wheels go nose draggier if you a comfortable go tail wheel it really does not make any difference in the air. --- On Mon, 4/20/09, John Kitsch <johng...@comcast.net> wrote: From: John Gotschall <johng...@comcast.net> Subject: Re: KR> Tri Gear Conversion To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 9:22 AM That's exactly why I want those retracts up and have a smooth underbelly when putting down on the water. jg On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 11:05 +1000, Darren Crompton wrote: > > > > All my forced landing here in western Washington are probably going to > > be within reach of water.. > > > > Hi John > > Choosing to land on water should be considered only as a last resort. The > deceleration forces are huge, if you survive the ditching you could find > yourself unconscious or semi-conscious and end up drowning. > > Cheers _______________________________________ 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 _______________________________________ 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
