Hi Mike, I started out in ultralights 40 years ago. I quite like them - their capabilities are often a lot more fun than just boring a hole through the sky for hours. Additionally, 2-cycle engines have become pretty reliable.
Re: concerns about KR flight safety: > KR's fly just fine with aft-CG. vs > Two people in the cockpit make that tail heavy tendendy > ten times worse… The standard KR is a > bear with two people in it. You can understand the concern. Thanks for the note on the canopy latch. Seems important and had to look it up. Do you think there’s any issue with inhibiting rescue? For anyone else like me that was unfamiliar with the canopy latch, here’s the details - taken from: http://www.krnet.org/newsletter/quarterly_2-16.pdf <http://www.krnet.org/newsletter/quarterly_2-16.pdf> Tired to attach the detail to this email but if it doesn’t make it though you can see it in the files section of the KRaircraft Yahoo Group here: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/KRaircraft/files <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/KRaircraft/files> Canopy Safety Latch.pdf <https://xa.yimg.com/df/KRaircraft/Canopy+Safety+Latch.pdf?token=7vFxvdmVj46ArG17iQ3tBf6kDqpj5CIn8uunpGtRG_xWp5Y-MKqgUrGqffi8ofuN5P0dyynZpUtoaqvz0mMuv3AQRHUnx_jrhd8_ZE38wJ3BxL0TjRNEXct2&type=download> Cheers, Owen _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
