Gentlemen, With an attempt not to keep beating on the horse I would like to highlight a couple of things David wrote in his email (which I did not copy in it's entirety here to save space...reread his email.)
Number one is that the NTSB did not publish a complete accident investigation which determined the exact cause of the crash, and since no one was killed, will probably not actually conduct a complete investigation to "Standard". So you can speculate all you want about the cause based on what the "Preliminary Report" implies, or based on what the media reported, ....or you can base your speculations on David's "eyewitness" account. Since David was not at the controls, even as an "eyewitness" he can not be expected to have known exactly what the PIC was thinking or telling his hands on the controls to do at the time. Has anybody ever talked to police investigators about how completely skewed eyewitness accounts can be. Still, as an experienced pilot trained by the military as an instructor and accident investigator, I trust David to have been paying pretty good attention to what was actually transpiring at the time of the mishap. So I would put a lot of weight on his Account being a fairly accurate depiction of the event. The Second thing I would like to highlight is David's comments about KR Handling characteristics and flying them in general. I have flown a couple of KR2s. I don't have the experience David, or a lot of you other guys have with them by flying multiple versions, but I have yet to experience this instability or twitchiness that is constantly being referred to, but even with close to 8000 hours of flight time I wouldn't consider jumping into any aircraft (even a cessna 152) that I had never flown before and attempting to fly it alone. So just like I would do with any other unknown aircraft, I chose to fly first with an experienced KR2 pilot before flying my own KR2. He carefully prepared me for the worst, and explained what to expect and how to recover from "pilot induced oscillations", then sat back and chuckled when he gave me the controls. I asked him a few minutes after taking the controls when to expect the "wierdness" to happen and he had to take the controls back and put in some major inputs to simulate and demonstrate for me what everyone was talking about. I still haven't figured out how to make the airplane do that, but will take everyone's word for it that some folks are ham fisted. The key point here being that "ham fisted" or not, why would anyone not get checked out in an unknown airplane before soloing in it? Sorry for being long winded. Just like all you builders use the wisdom of the genius aeronautical engineering types (like Mark Langford, etc.) to keep from having to learn building techniques the hard way, David Goodman has graciously offered up his expertise as an instructor. Pick his brain about flying KR2s and if you can get to him, let him fly with you, before you have to learn flying techniques the hard way (like by having to practice your building techniques again due to airframe damage.) Todd Thelin Spanaway, WA In a message dated 10/11/2010 9:44:41 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, dgood...@verticalavionics.com writes: Guys, I was in this airplane when it crashed. If you want to know what happened... There are more photos and write-up of the mishap aircraft at: http://sites.google.com/a/wildblue.net/goodmans/Home/2010-kr2-mishap If you have questions about flying a KR for the first time, call me as well. I will spend however much time you need or want to help you get ready for that first flight. IHS, David Goodman Vertical Avionics, Inc. www.verticalavionics.com _______________________________________ 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
