Thanks so much Larry and Mr. Parley et al for all your excellent advice and invaluable sharing of experiences on how to perform the first flight of my KR2 safely and successfully! I will certainly keep it in my flight test plan as key points of caution and lessons learned! However, I may not be able to do the first flight test by myself because I am just a student pilot and have not yet done my checkride. Also, there is a significant difference between understanding everything in theory or principal and how one may actually behaves while sitting inside the cockpit during the course of panic if something would start to go off course....!
I will see how things might be working out on the first test flight of my bird without hurting myself... Kindest regards, Dr. Hsu 713 513 0423 N2830H & N40881 On Sun, Mar 14, 2021, 5:08 PM Flesner <fles...@frontier.com> wrote: > > One item I never considered on the first three "first flights" that > tried to bite me on the first flight in the Cruzer was "stick neutral > pitch position". I failed to verify before takeoff with a visual and > started the takeoff with stick in slight nose up pitch position. By the > time I got the throttle to the firewall the airplane LEAPED off the > ground and I went through a two cycle PIO before getting it stabilized. > Neutral position was a fair amount forward than I anticipated. > > Lesson learned: Start from neutral so there are no surprises and then > make inputs appropriate for the airplane and phase of flight, i.e., in a > taildragger go to full back stick at start of takeoff if appropriate. > In the Cruzer a neutral position or very slight forward input kept the > plane on the ground until it was ready for controllable flight. > Whatever is appropriate and works for control-ability. > > Larry Flesner > > ________________________________ > -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > -To change list delivery options at > https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board > -Search recent KRnet Archives at > https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ > -Search <https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/-Search> > John Boyea's decades of archive at > https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/ ________________________________ -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -To change list delivery options at https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board -Search recent KRnet Archives at https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ -Search John Boyea's decades of archive at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/
