My tailwheel experience comes from flying a 45HP Rotax 447 engined Mini-Max
R1600. My buddy passed away and his wife asked me to sell the airplane. I had
to move it from its Homebase airport to Mesquite Metro Airport (KHQZ) in
Dallas. That was one hell of an adventure. Thank God that HKQZ has a
-From: John Shaffer
To: krnet@list.krnet.org
Mike, your talk about all pilot training to require tail wheel
training the first few hours reminded me of my training. In doing a
soft field landing, ( But on a hard surface runway,) I scraped the
tai
Larry,
I have been planning on it. I wish I had known about this engine and was
willing to spend the money on it, when I had my KR.
I hope it will happen next year.
My Panther Building Documentation at PantherBuilder.org
Daniel R. Heath - Lexington, SC
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On 9/3/2020 6:13 PM, Daniel Heath via KRnet wrote:
My first flight in the Panther was today and it was great.
Congratulations, Dan. We better see you at the next Gathering or we'll
come looking for you.
Larry Flesner
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Sorry, I forgot to change the subject line on that last post.
Larry Flesner
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On 9/3/2020 6:27 PM, donald january via KRnet wrote:
Taylor monoplane. Some thoughts on tailwheel training.
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My advise on tail wheel training: You don't have to be a "super pilot"
to fly tail wheel aircraft. Almost every tail wheel aircraft h
Mike,
Jim was one of my very best KR friends. What happened to him, should happen
to no one.
Thanks for writing this.
PS: I think you could fly anything, not to take anything away from Jim's
plane.
And, PPS: My first flight in the Panther was today and it was great.
My Panther Building D
Taylor monoplane. Some thoughts on tailwheel training. For those new pilots
wanting to get some stick time in a taildragger there are 2 seat ag plane's
such as Piper Pawnee that has some compairneson to a KR touchy elevator and
so on. May be worth checking in your local area for this type of plane.
Sam said,
> "Moral of the story... Fly a tri-gear."
I don't know if flying a tri-gear is the moral of the story, however it
surely does make ground handling more comfortable since you can see
things better and are sitting in a level, more natural, attitude. I was
amazed the first
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