One little side note with new aircraft, I know KR guys are cheap but it may be a good investment to PAY to have an actual pitot static test performed by a licensed shop to make sure your system is operating properly.
Steve Glover Sent from my electronic leash. > On Apr 17, 2021, at 10:53, Mark Langford <m...@n56ml.com> wrote: > > Maybe there's a misconception about lifting off in a KR. I can only speak > to taildraggers, but before my first flight (after several introductory > flights and another hour of right seat KR stick time), Troy Petteway told me > that all I had to do was loosely hold the stick and gently follow it, give it > full throttle, and the tail would eventually come up, and then when it was > ready, the plane would take off all by itself! If you just want to get the > tail up or taxi test, you need to be a little more proactive, and give it > some nose down stick after the tail comes up to keep the nose level or down a > bit, to keep the plane from flying unintentionally. I can't speak to > tri-gear KRs, but I would think they are very similar. > > Some folks dis me for saying that I did something like 60 high speed taxi > runs back and forth on the 6000' strip at KMDQ before I ever flew it, but you > can rest assured I knew exactly how to get the tail up and down, and under > control, before I ever took to the sky. My practice started out on calm > days and graduated to slightly more cross-windy days, and I didn't fly it > until I felt like I had that under complete control. I can't imagine the > pressure of a first landing having done none of that, especially after the > tense and potentially harrowing experience of flying the plane for the first > time. > > Taxi testing also gave me the chance to verify the airspeed indicator was > operating correctly, and what it was reading while I was tail up and near > takeoff speed, because that's pretty close to where you want to be when > landing....just a bit slower. Another piece of unsolicited advice is to only > make the first flight on a dead calm day, probably most likely to happen in > the early morning, and not into the sun, obviously. Then gradually work up > to the more breezy stuff on future flights. If this all sounds like being > over-cautious, consider going to buy a KR somewhere, and crawling into one > that you've never flown, with zero KR experience....and you'll understand why > so many KRs are damaged or destroyed on first flights by an inexperienced > pilot. > > Enough of my babbling for now.... > > Mark Langford > m...@n56ml.com > http://www.n56ml.com > Huntsville, AL > ________________________________ > -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > -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/ ________________________________ -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -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/
