Jeff,
Just an opinion from an old timer with about 1800 hours in
experimentals............Don't do it.......Besides it being an FAA
requirement that you be checked out in kind and type, you will hurt
yourself or tear up 10 years worth of work.....
Little airplanes don't fly like big airplanes..My Mustang and my
Cassutt would both snap in stall recovery if you over controlled
them. I have a high time aerobatic friend who flies a Super
Decathalon. He over controlled a stall recovery at 6000 feet and went
thru 2000 before I finally took the controls and got us straight and
level again. Keep in mind this is a pilot who did't get disoriented
being upside down, just everything he did magnified the problem.
The guy that bought my Cassutt was a 737 Captain that thought he knew
everything. he tore it up and hurt himself in less than a week.
The experimental ranks are full of some of the most helpful people in
the world. Find a short coupled two place and get some dual before
you try this..............Bobby
> Orma,
>
> I think this is an interesting subject and of course I would like to hear
> more about your first flight experence.
>
> How did you find the aircraft to fly as compared to what you had been
> flying? What steps did you take to your first flight. At 60 hours I would
> not suspect that you had a lot of high performance time. Maybe you didn't
> have any high performance time.
>
> Your flight time and situation would be more common to the average KR
> builder who is getting ready to make his first flight verses the high time
> pilot who has flown a lot of different aircraft before his first KR
> flight.
> There are probably a lot of first timers who have not even been able to
> take
> a ride in a KR.
>
> Of course your KR is a tail dragger as apposed to the very common nose
> dragger that so many are building today. So a variation of technique and
> such would be expected.
>
> I am always interested in hearing more.
>
> Tell us more.
>
> Jeff York
> KR-2 Flying
> N839BG
> Home page http://web.qx.net/jeffyork40/
> My KR-2 http://web.qx.net/jeffyork40/Airplane/ to see my KR-2
> Email jeffyor...@qx.net
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Orma" <o...@aviation-mechanics.com>
> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net>
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 1:47 PM
> Subject: Re: KR> How many flight hours before flying KR ??
>
>
>> I only had 60 hours or so when I completed and made the first flight in
>> my
>> KR. I had no taildragger time. No problems
>>
>> Orma
>> Southfield, MI
>> KR-2 N110LR 1984
>> See Tweety at http://www.kr-2.aviation-mechanics.com
>> See other KR spces at www.kr-2.aviation-mechanics.com/krinfo.htm
>>
>>
>>
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