List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Thursday, Apr.21,2011 Subject: KR2 first time flyers
Vaughan; When I first flew my plans built kr2, I had one hour of logged tail dragger time. I had flown many hours in tail draggers with friends but they never gave me the opportunity to taxi, takeoff or land them. I did have many hours in F-4 flight simulators ( about 4000 total sim time) and this helped me with the pitch sensitivity of the little bird but didn't do anything for the ground handling of a taildragger. I was fortunate to have several large dry lakes to practice taxing my kr2. I hauled N54PB to Eldorado dry lake, Just southwest of Boulder City Nevada, several times and put the wings on it so I could get as much taxi time as possible before actually attempting to take it into the air. I was able to practice high speed taxi without interfering with airport operations and soon found that my kr2 handled very nicely on the ground. I had NO problems with ground loops or keeping it straight with the rudder when the tail came up. I had about 250 hours total pilot in command time when I first flew N54PB and a commercial license plus a lot of simulator time for F-4s, T-38, T-37 and various commercial airline simulators, i.e..B-757. B-727, L-1011, DC-8, and DC-9. ( I was a flight simulator technician for 6 years in the USAF and worked on Delta's simulators for a short time after my USAF service) My personal opinion is that the KR2 is very easy to land and take off even for an inexperienced taildragger pilot. I found that my kr2 needs a lot of left rudder on take off because of P factor. I normally wheel land my kr2 and I don't understand those who have problems doing this, it is easy to hold the tail up and use the rudder to keep everything straight. When three pointing the landing, the ailerons get some what sloppy because of the low speed, but other than that everything is still very controllable. I hope this information is of some use to you. Feel free to contact me off line if I can be of further help or assistance in your efforts to learn the kr2. Thanks Parley Byington N54PB Henderson, Nevada byington1...@embarqmail.com parley.bying...@gmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Williams" <kr2seaf...@yahoo.com> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 6:12 AM Subject: Re: KR> (no subject) When I transitioned to tailwheel I was a 250hr pilot and the first 5 hrs of training was white knuckled but I got used to it and by the 10th hour it was like I had been doing it all my life. Every plane takes some time to get used to and I am sure the KR is no exception. I plan on getting some experience in either a PITTS or tailwheel RV before I jump in my 2-s taildragger. More time in type is always a good thing. Don't be afraid of it but respect it like all planes should be. You'll know when your ready. Craig www.kr2seafury.com --- On Thu, 4/21/11, Vaughan Thomas <v...@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > From: Vaughan Thomas <v...@xtra.co.nz> > Subject: KR> (no subject) > To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> > Date: Thursday, April 21, 2011, 5:26 AM > having invested fair bit of > time (&dollars) into my KR2S project, I'm starting to > wonder if I made the right choice.
