Larry, Steve I have about 300 ft/min descent rate on the VSI (KR2S GPAS 2180 / 900RPM idle). If I deploy the combined flaps/bellyboard the descent rate goes to 600 ft/min. If you leave a little power in (about 1100RPM) it will not settle onto the runway.....
I flew gliders in my early days, but the KR for sure is very similar to a low performance glider. Cheers Christian OE-VPD http://www.members.aon.at/oevpd -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Mittwoch, 03. September 2003 22:51 To: [email protected] Subject: KR>what glide ratio? Hi Larry. I looked back at my knee pad writings, this was about 10 years ago. I had the soob and did idle it at 1500 rpm to keep the temps up. With a 1.69 reduction this was about 850-900 rpm at the prop. I do know according to my notes that it took me a long time to get down to 1500 feet and that was 65 miles from the start of my decent. and 10 miles from my home field. I enjoyed the ride, locked on my wing leveler/autopilot and listened to my stereo !! It was a nice smooth ride. The Kr will fly at idle, and I did not have the nerve to shut down the engine although I have done that over a grass strip (Just in case) Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html
