I'm not too low time, although I only have around 50 hours in my KR so far, but I fly mostly by sight picture on the horizon and feel anyway. It just has always bothered me that the ASI is so far off. When I flew it from Georgia to Washington state I didn't have a GPS for a ground speed readout, so using the 175 mph indicated airspeeds at cruise my planning figures came out a tad optimistic. But it didn't take long with a stop watch and a map to start figuring out my actual ground speed. I just thought I had a 35-45 knot head wind everywhere I went, which doesn't seem unreasonable when you are headed westbound. It wasn't until my final leg flying from California up to Washington, when I linked up with a buddy in his RV who was giving me ground speeds off his GPS and his indicated airspeeds, that I realized how far off my ASI actually was.
In a message dated 2/4/2012 3:24:25 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, fles...@frontier.com writes: P.S. If you are a low time pilot or have very little recent flight time, get an hour with your instructor before the first flight in your KR and do the circuit over and over with the ASI covered over. The ASI will probably be the instrument that gets the most of your attention on your first flight and it may be off by a considerable amount. You don't want something as simple as a inaccurate ASI to ruin what would otherwise be a great day. I'd even go out on a limb and say the Wright Brothers didn't have an accurate ASI on their early flights either. :-) Larry Flesner _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://mylist.net/private/krnet/ to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
