Agree. I live near Stennis Airport. The runway is 10,000 feet long. I had already intended to trailer my plane (eventually) there for testing.
--- larry severson <[email protected]> wrote: > > >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] > > > _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to > [email protected] > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools
