In the early years of flying my KR there were times that I wished I had more instruments. Remember that the design goal of the KR was to keep it light and fly fast. I tried to do that initially and just kept wishing for more equipment. My first wish came while crossing Lake Michigan enroute to Oshkosh. How did I know that on a cloudless day, the water and the sky are the same color, and me and my KR with no AH. I nearly went blind trying to keep that sun ball in the same spot on the cowling for the 17 minutes that I was out of sight of land. The second time I made that wish was while taking a "Special" to get out of my home base in light broken cloud cover, but still IFR. The gap in the clouds that I thought I could follow just closed in on me and again there I was with only a turn and bank to keep the wings level. And there have been other wishes as well. I said all this so that those who want to scold and flame me can do so and also to say the more equipment you have the better your chances for survival, if for some reason you can't see. N110LR now has a fairly complete panel. In that I have AH, DG, T&B, VSI. I have not tested the plane with the third gyro and hope that my 11 venturi will turn all of them. To help the venturi, it is placed behind the right exhaust stack that helps it spin the gyro's prior to rotation. The low and slow airplanes that most say don't need all that equipment, usually cant fly at the same speed as a well engined KR can and the faster you cover real-estate, the more situational awareness you need.
Orma aka AviationMech KR-2 N110LR 1984 to Present www.members.aol.com/aviationmech
