Adding to what Mark said, while you continue with your flight training Dr. Hsu, you will be taught how to land an aircraft without an engine, and how important it is to continually have a landing site picked out throughout every phase of every flight.
You are going to actually land the plane, multiple times, with the throttle reduced to idle during your training, AND you are going to have the throttle pulled at a time when you least expect it, even when you go for your check ride. Once this training is under your belt - and hopefully burned into your brain - you shouldn't be considering a BRS, but instead hopefully you'll continue to practice engine-out landings - so that WHEN it happens (not if) you'll be read, and you'll get to use your plane again. Also consider getting some glider time. EVERY glider landing is engine-out. :) Pat On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 10:44 AM Mark Langford via KRnet < krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote: > Dr. Hsu wrote: > > > Also, I asked f anyone have tired or already installed BRS on your KR2? > I > > can't believe no one has done that at all, considering so many safety > risk > > factors associated with the design concept (competing design > objectives or > > requirements...)? > > I think most KR folks would answer "too heavy, too expensive, and I'd > rather glide it to the ground". Having done more than my share of > dead-stick landings in a KR, I can tell you that it normally works out > pretty well....at least you are in control of the plane. When you pull > the handle on a chute, you have no idea where or what you will land on, > and your plane will probably die in the process. If you fly it all the > way to the ground, chances are good that you can land on a runway, a > road, or a field, and the plane lives to fly another day. Structural > failures are almost unheard of in KRs.....it's usually the engine. Why > kill an airplane when it's the engine's fault? > > Mark Langford > m...@n56ml.com > http://www.n56ml.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. > Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org > _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
