Martin wrote: I would think that the best way to approach this is to practice slow flight as much as possible, extending the lower speed slowly and cautiously over many flights
Martin, You should be doing at least a power off approach to stall on the very first flight in the plane. If you do not do this, how else are you going to know where the approach speed actually is? How will you know if you are getting ready to stall the plane on its first landing? This was my fear about the thread about stalls on the net. The discussion has been on FULL POWER or POWER ON stalls. This is a very different beast compared to the power off stall. In a power off stall, the plane is not going to be cocked up as much, you need far less rudder and you have extra power to add coming out of the stall. In the power on stall there is no extra power available, you will likely have a huge amount of rudder in to balance the torque of the motor, and there power becomes your enemy unless the plane is in balanced flight throughout. They are very different events. Pilots like Jeff Scott are high hour pilots who have a tremendous amount of experience in the KR and other aircraft. Maneuvers that come easily to them do so because they have gained insight into doing them well, often through scary experiences, or at least enough experience to have become proficient. A person writing on the KR net may have no hours at all, or be a high time pilot, and his or her experience level will be reflected in their comments. At 300 hours in my KR-2S I see no reason to be doing power on stalls in it. It is not that I cannot do them, but I have enough experience from other at high g or inverted maneuvering to not feel the need to do this type flight in this airplane. Other pilots may want to go out and do high power stalls on every flight, and for them that is just as good an answer as my own. It all depends on what you want to do in your plane. Before you do any maneuvers or fly make sure you review and brief to yourself all the maneuvers you plan on doing. Think your flights out, plan safe, fly safe... and have fun! IHS, Dave "Zipper" Goodman www.verticalavionics.com
