I got into flying because a friend gave me a magazine with an article about a fantastic new home built airplane. It was a Long EZ. I really got pumped up about the idea of building one and was discussing it with someone at work His father was a ground school instructor, so he knew something about flying and his response to me was, "Don't you think that you should learn to fly, first.". I had not even thought about that, but, of course, he was right. So, I started ground school and the rest followed. Well, I never built the Long EZ because I found this other little airplane that seemed even more cool. So I bought a partially finished KR that was advertised as 90% complete. With six more years of building, I finally got to fly it and at that time I had 152.8 total hours of mostly Cessna 150 time.
I had a difficult time learning to land it with the little guppy retract gear that it had on it then. Before I finished flying off the hours, it was converted to a fixed conventional gear with a very good tail wheel, and the landings became much easier. I really think that if it had been the training wheel" version, that I would have had absolutely no problem at all with the plane, with no additional training. Also, today, you can get a lot more information about how to do it right the first time, right here on the KRNet, which will make it easier. Some time like Mark Langford recently received from Bill Clapp, would have been all that was needed to make it an easy transition as the KR really is an easy airplane to fly. Now, I can't wait to get finished with this one and do it again. See you in Mt. Vernon - 2005 - KR Gathering See N64KR at http://KR-Builder.org - Then click on the pics There is a time for building and a time for FLYING and the time for building has expired. Daniel R. Heath - Columbia, SC -------Original Message------- I have never flown a day in my life, would this be a good plane to own as a first for a novice pilot?
