Dave Dunwoodie wrote: > It would be interesting to know how effective the tiny flaps are, from > several KR2 owners.
I'm probably not qualified to answer this, since mine's not a KR2, and my flaps aren't the "tiny" ones. But Ken Rand was quoted as saying something like "I didn't know I needed flaps until after I installed them!". I've heard Orma Robbins swear they made a worthy difference, and he installed them after he'd flown for some time without them. Mine are something like 54" long and are quite effective, as you might suspect, and the pitch change is way more than my little trim tab can handle. I built my trim tab small because I thought I'd have the plane quite sorted out when it flew, but I didn't consider the effects of full flaps. Some folks swear flaps are useless and you can do everything you really need by slipping it on approach. My only comment on that is consider flaps AND slipping it with full rudder, which is how I do almost all of my landings at my 2600' long airport's runway. I did some flying today testing a G-meter that Oscar Zuniga sent me, testing the air flow through my oil cooler, and my recently repaired altimeter. There was a decent sunset, but no clouds, so nothing worthy of an addition to the sunset webpage. No progress on the plane otherwise, so it'll look just like it did at OSH (hideous) at the Gathering... Mark Langford N56ML "at" hiwaay.net website at http://www.N56ML.com ----------------------------------------------
