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On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:32:10 -0600 "Rick and Pam" <[email protected]>
writes:
> Heres my story to date. I bought a KR2 last month from grand
> rapids Mi
> (Im in Defiance Ohio). basicly it needed a seat and all the
> small things
> that these planes need. so Ive been working on it for a month
> now and I
> figured I would take it to the local airport and rent a small
> hanger so
> I could mount the wings and do some taxi testing, well as luck
> would
> have it 2 hangars down is THE local eaa guy,(white beard,eaa
> tech rep,
> ap mech, 2 taildraggers sitting in his hangar) basicly the whole
>
> package, so Im thinking man what a great resource 2 hangars down
> from
> me. I go down and introduce myself and tell him my story and he
> proceeds
> to tell me in short that unless I have 5 to 10 thousand hours of
>
> taildragger time that I shouldn't attempt to fly the kr2. He
> then went
> on and on about why I should buy a cessna 150 cause as a
> certified
> aircraft. I would be able to just "fly it" (that would be the
> only thing
> I could do to it) To top it all off he then lets me know that
> the last
> thing we need is someone crashing on the runway.....wouldn't do
> our
> Image any good he says, Now Im no idiot and I know that Im not
> Tom
> Cruise in top gun, as a matter of fact Im not even a pilot as of
> yet
> {although Im working on it} I know when Im talking to someone
> with a
> lot more experiance than me to listen but I got to believe that
> this guy
> really doesn't like home built aircraft ,which is what I thought
> the eaa
> was all about.He practicly had me talked intoselling it before I
> left.On
> the way home I realized that this was the type of guy that made
> me look
> at experimentals to start with...I understand I need some
> taildragger
> time , I understand it will require maintenance, I understand
> that
> things go wrong, I accept these as challenges to be overcome.
> WHAT I
> DONT EXCEPT IS PEOPLE TELLING ME I CANT DO IT. anyways I just had
> to vent
>
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