I'll give you my thoughts on stick time. I think if a person with a duel stick or center stick plane who is right handed should be instructed by a left handed instructor. If a pilot get's into either configuration of control type they should be able to fly the craft??
On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Victor Taylor via KRnet < krnet at list.krnet.org> wrote: > While at Mount Vernon I had a moment to chat with Mark about a training > aircraft. I know it is a long shot but we might be able to get some > donations up and put together a wide body KR with full duals to do > transition training with. It doesn't have to be fast. We can get a LODA > from the FAA to legally charge for flight / transition instruction to keep > up the airplane or start paying back people who donate or invested in it. > We could have a couple different instructors that would be approved for > training in the airplane. I am a CFII with KR experience in both Martin > Robert's KR and in Steve Alderman's KR. I have never flown one with a VW > though. Marty and Steve had loaned me their airplanes when they had them. I > am one of the very few people who has borrowed KR 2's. > > I am working on my KR 2 again now and have promised to have it at the next > Mount Vernon fly in. Mine will have an O-200 on it. > It might be that we could set my airplane up for dual training when it is > done. I already have dual sticks and pedals in it. I don't have dual > throttles but that might be possible to add. My airplane is a standard > width KR and I weight 235 so there would be limits on the weight of the > other person were we to set my airplane for this mission. > > Should the idea be discussed? What are the groups thoughts on this? If we > formed a 501 charitable corp we could get donations from other people and > it would help us out as well. I am sure there is a KR out there somewhere > that someone is wanting to see fly but knows they will never finish. > Donating it and taking a tax loss might be one idea. I am sure we could get > discounts on everything to put this together from sponsors that could be > named on the side of the airplane. > > Victor Taylor CFII > Irvington, AL > > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org >
