>Just taxiing around for 1/2 an hour is just long enough to give one a >false sense of security in the ease of ground handling.
Hopefully, all of the KRNeters will read your whole message. While I have 14,300 hours pilot time, I plan to follow not only the extensive taxi, slow and fast, test time. I also plan to follow my procedure of every airplane that I have transitioned into, namely push the throttle forward SLOWLY. In spite of the fact that the KR can get airborne in 600-900 feet, most test runways exceed 3000 feet. Why not add a couple hundred (thousand) feet to the take off roll and avoid the sudden application of torque that puts you in the weeds? Once you are comfortable, be a hot dog. Until then, caution will help you avoid selling your bird during/at the end of flight test because you got scared once too often. Larry Severson Fountain Valley, CA 92708 (714) 968-9852 [email protected]
