KR>Re: engine failure - fuel pumps

2021-11-21 Thread Dr. Feng Hsu
Randall, my hat off to you on this! What a heck of way to resolve your problems with your wife's request for you to quit flying?! Instead of quiting fly, you simply replace the boss and continue to flying regardless?!! I can see that for some of us, nothing can change what we love to do in life, wi

KR>Re: engine failure - fuel pumps

2021-11-21 Thread John Gotschall
So if I may, I'd like to say that while I am convinced every machine will fail, my plan is to have it fail "When it doesn't matter." I don't know anything of martial arts, but my brother was quite the judo expert in his youth, his best advice was "Pay attention and step out of the way." That's

KR>Re: engine failure - fuel pumps

2021-11-21 Thread Randall Smith via KRnet
I had a number of engine failure on Volkswagen's in my KR. My last wife said I needed to get rid of the airplane she was done with being scared. So I just got a new wife. Things do happen but you have to realize flying is not the safest thing in the world. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 21, 2021

KR>Re: engine failure - fuel pumps

2021-11-21 Thread Flesner
On 11/21/2021 8:28 AM, Flesner wrote: In 800 hours in the KR and 500 hours in the Tripacer I've never had a problem that caused me to cancel a flight or stranded me away from home base, not even a flat tire.  Lucky or what? Larry Flesner +++

KR>Re: engine failure - fuel pumps

2021-11-21 Thread Flesner
On 11/20/2021 11:52 PM, Dr. Feng Hsu wrote: BTW, I am a bit curious about your only failure and the consequences nearly 800 hour ago of your KR2 during the early flight test? + I think I've mentioned  several times in past

KR>Re: engine failure - fuel pumps

2021-11-20 Thread Dr. Feng Hsu
Larry, you are certainly one of the lucky ones in the KR crowd, and even in the entire experimental world in general! I like your thoughts that we are all "living on borrowed time", so we should have fun flying and enjoy life as much as we can before the time comes for returning our borrowed times