Orma,
That was a great KRnet post!
I always like the posts that put me into the airplane and make me think
"what would I do". Helps me continue the fight to complete the plane!
-- Ross
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 07:05:46 -0500, Orma Robbins
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Net
> In reference to "the recommended 50 foot hop" My first flight in my KR
> happened as a result of attempting to perform a 3rd tail up tail down
> transition on the same run. I only had a total of 60 hours and that
> included 43 to get my private in C150's, and no tail time. I had been
> practicing high speeds for several days and never counted the hours,
> probobly near 10. On this occasion I accelerated and lifted the tail,
> which
> happens within seconds. In fact you push the throttle adjust your track
> down the centerline, adjust rudder pressure for P factor and lift the
> tail.
> By that time you will have rudder authority. On the third attempt I had
> forgotten to cut the power and the KR popped of the ground. In a flash
> the
> thought passed that if I were going to crash land this craft, that at
> least
> I was going to fly it first. That was my first flight. Like Larry and
> all
> before him and all before me, I was scared to say the least. The KR
> being
> faater in the pattern then I was used to, went around and was ready to
> land
> before I was. My CFI later told me that I should have left the pattern
> and
> practiced some slow flight so that I could see what kind of desent rate
> the
> craft had.. Any way as I attempted to land I found that my idle was too
> high and although it would tach at 800 on the ground, in the air on
> desent
> the idle would not go below 1200. My plan was for a wheel landing thus
> my
> approach and flair was shallow. The KR just kept going and going and
> would
> not settle to the runway, was flying in gournd effect at 1200 rpm. Near
> the
> end of the 10,000 foot runway I cut the engine and the KR finally
> settled to
> the ground. As far as the great debate as to Can you or can you not be
> a
> low time pilot or no tail time pilot and master the KR, I'm sure it can
> be
> done. Remember it only takes 10 hours to Solo in the first place. At
> lease
> for me, others take from 10 to 50 or more. One other point that I would
> make is that I have flown one other Tail dragger and that was a Cessna
> 205
> Bird Dog dressed in Air Force war paint. Most other Tail draggers have a
> longer arm (Tail) then the KR and handle entirely different, except that
> the
> tail up tail down transition is the same. That I think is the most
> useful
> information you would get from flying another TD and I feel is the key
> to a
> safe landing. You keep the tail up until it won't fly any more then you
> pull the stick back and taxi. In a tri gear, you don't land on the nose
> gear anyway, after touch down you push the nose over only after the
> airspeed bleeds off a little. In the KR first you flair and land, and
> except for full stall landings, you stay on the mains let the speed bleed
> off and then pull back.
> Orma L. Robbins
> [email protected]
> aka AviationMech
> 19 Years flying the KR-2
> 20 this August
>
>
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