Perfect landings!!! Now there's a laugh. My personal landing technique is to
beat the plane against the ground until it gives up and quits flying. :o)
Landing a tailwheel aircraft is just another skill to add to your repertoire as
a pilot and will improve one's overall pilot skills. It teac
I'll chime in a little bit here. Before flying my taildragger, I did what
Larry did with his KR. I did a lot of taxing up and down the runway. At first
I would slowly add power while keeping the tail down. As I felt more
comforable, I picked a day when the wind was directly down the runway
Larry wrote: "As if adding a nose wheel will insure 100% perfect landings."
I wanted to know what it takes to get a tail dragger rating and it's not as
difficult as I expected. Section 61.31 part (i) of FAR states:
(i) Additional training required for operating tailwheel airpl
Troy Petteway has flown a lot of tailwheel planes, and he says the KR is the
easiest taildragger of them all to land. And he also says mine's the best
of the KRs he's flown (and that's a lot of them). That may be because of
the wide stance and near perfect gear geometry. I agree with Larry t
At 08:57 PM 11/6/2008, you wrote:
>With the center of gravity (centroid of mass?) being behind the landing
>gear, it seems to me taildraggers are an accident waiting to happen. They
>are inherently unstable. But if 100% of your landings are perfect and you
>know they will continue to be, regardless
With the center of gravity (centroid of mass?) being behind the landing
gear, it seems to me taildraggers are an accident waiting to happen. They
are inherently unstable. But if 100% of your landings are perfect and you
know they will continue to be, regardless of weather then maybe you don't
need
At 11:51 AM 11/5/2008, you wrote:
>And two of the airplanes involved, the 185 and the Beaver, are
>both easier to land than a KR-2 with conventional gear.
Ron Vogt
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I can't imagine a fixed gear airplane being ea
shiny new KR in one piece...install tricycle
landing gear.
> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 09:20:20 -0600> From: fles...@verizon.net> To:
kr...@mylist.net> Subject: KR> Tri-Gear KR's - final post> > At 05:47 AM
11/5/2008, you wrote:> >Having my> >t
At 05:47 AM 11/5/2008, you wrote:
>Having my
>tri-gear KR called a Flying Milkstool would annoy me too,
Mike
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Having owned and flown a Tri-Pacer for 500+ hours I can only
smile when I hear it called a flying milk stool. I know that comment
comes from
Puzzling over the disharmony my response to Derek created, I think it
mainly was the unfortunate choice of a posting title. Flying Milkstools
referred to the Tri-Pacer I used as an example in the posting. Having my
tri-gear KR called a Flying Milkstool would annoy me too, but that's not
what I me
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