That's a sad bit of info to come across, that Steve isn't responding re the wingskins. I hope Steve eventually gets enough equilibrium with his regular life to get enough time to get back to the business of KR components and Ellison production/overhaul. The newsletter is becoming quite a hodge-podge. This will be my last comment on the subject. I think people using their phones instead of notebooks/laptops for email may be the major reason for what's happened. It's apparently harder to edit communications when using a smartphone?. I don't own one, so am just guessing.
I DID take some netter's advice (thank you whoever that was!) and buy a $30 LG Rebel 4 at Wal-Mart, for use as a back up for Avare. I suppose it qualifies as a smartphone but I don't use it for communications, nevermind trying to write on it). I did load Avare but the best use I've gotten from it is using it to listen to Radio4, using wi-fi. Also useful as a tether for using my laptop when out of town. Ting has a deal for 5 GB of pure 4&5G hotspot data for $20/mo (also includes unlimited talk & text), no contract. Amazing and really handy little device. Maybe someday I'll buy a fancy smartphone and learn to use it. I've heard you can talk into them and have voice transcribed into text, which then can be edited - but obviously often isn't - at least on KRNet. Meanwhile, I love my Lenovo T-series laptops and much enjoy the flow of conversation on KRNet. I think the idea of a KR Trainer is rather unnecessary. An original Jim Bede AA-1 Yankee is touchy enough - stall wise and control-feel wise - to prepare someone for anything a KR might do. Old Yankee's surely must be cheap these days. My thought is the KR itself, especially now that most of them have been lengthened somewhat, is the best teacher of all. Two requirements - a long, long runway and nobody in a tower directing traffic. As for "high speed taxi texts", more KR's have bit the dust doing these things than have ever succumbed to any normal crashes :-). And brakes? Used for holding short and emergency use on very short strips. That's all they're for. Proper pilots disdain brakes. MikeKSEE ________________________________ -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/
