Hello Ed What I think and these are my ideas only, is that the reaction time on a KR, Soneria and Cassett are required to be so much quicker and much more precise than on any Piper or Cessna I've flown. The margin for error is reduced. They are not as forgiveing as most aircraft. Small overcorrections become big problems, quick. Quick, thats the word, things just happen quicker. I don't mean to say a sportspilot is not good enough to fly one but there is a reason it takes extra instruction to fly a complex/high proformance aircraft. Every one I know that is intrested in a sportspilot ticket is a better/more experanced pilot than I am. I'm not trying to steer anyone away from the KR, I'm trying to keep a 16 year old out of a Corvette. The year I turned 16 and got my drivers license you could go down to the dealer and buy 400 horsepower cars for $2500. Some of my friends did and some of them never saw 17. This is a little off airplanes but I hope you understand what I'm trying to get across. No one is trying to talk you out of building an airplane to meet the requirments, they are telling you there may be easier ways to go about it. Slowing a KR down would be like putting a block under the gas peddle of a Corvette. Why pay for the great handleing if you can only drive 55? Ed, build what you want to and we will help you any way we can. The KR may be the right place to start but when your finished you will need to call it an ED-2.
Good luck on your endeavor. Steve Bray Jackson, Tennessee >From: [email protected] (Ed Janssen) >Reply-To: KRnet <[email protected]> >To: "KRnet" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: KR> ELSA & LSA >Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:03:25 -0600 > >Steve, > >Besides getting the "fat" ultralights registered and certified, and then >pushing their pilots to become more knowledgeable and skillful pilots, the >important advantage of the Sport Pilot rating for those who have or have >had >medical problems, is to be able to continue to fly without taking several >thousand dollars of medical tests every year to prove their physical >condition for flying. > >I disagree on your other point though. Saying a plane is "high >performance" is relative and needs a definition. Getting a PPL certainly >doesn't automatically ensure your flying success with any aircraft. I >believe the KR is NOT "too hot to handle" for the average pilot and >shouldn't be for the properly trained Sport Pilot. I hope no one would shy >away from a KR thinking it is a "high" performance airplane that takes >extra-sharp flying skills and lots of flying experience. Flying a KR IS >different (but certainly not more difficult) than driving a Piper Cherokee >around, if you have a tailwheel endorsement for those KRs having the >nosewheel on the wrong end. I can attest to that. A KR driver would have >similar experience (maybe even have a little more difficult time) hopping >in >an ultra-light type aircraft and flying for the first time. Didn't Ken >Rand >have only a couple hundred hours before the first flight in his KR-1 >prototype? > >Ed > >Ed Janssen >mailto:[email protected] > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Steve Bray" > > > If you want to fly a KR get a PPL. If you have medical problems that is >one > > thing but if you just don't want to go to the trouble to get a PPL you >may > > not be a KR pilot. These are NOT ultralites. > > If you don't have what it takes to get a PPL you do not need to set your > > butt in one of these. This IS a high performance aircraft ! > > Things happen fast and if your to slow for a PPL you are to slow for a >KR. > > Sometimes the truth hurts, deal with it. > > > > Steve Bray > > Jackson, Tennessee > > >_______________________________________ >Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp >to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] >please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
