On 11/20/2021 11:52 PM, Dr. Feng Hsu wrote:
BTW, I am a bit curious about your only failure and the consequences nearly
800 hour ago of your KR2 during the early flight test?
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I think I've mentioned several times in past posts that at the10 hour
mark in testing I was motoring along at altitude and noticed all my
electrical gauges going "flop, flop" and then to zero". I simply flipped
one of the switches on the red panel on the bottom center of the
instrument panel to keep the fuel pumps running and flew to the nearest
airport.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/80vfxo460jws8kp/flight%20to%20walnut%20ridge.jpg?dl=0
The problem turned out to be a broken connection on the circuit breaker
for the master switch that I was able to find with two meter checks
having complete schematics for every circuit in the KR. My KR, like any
machine, has not been maintenance free but I've never had an in flight
failure "of consequence". A radio failure on one flight but I used my
cell phone to call the tower, battery failure in my noise cancelling
headset, little things that are annoying but not critical.
In 800 hours in the KR and 500 hours in the Tripacer I've never had a
problem that caused me to cancel a flight or stranded me away from home
base, not even a flat tire. Lucky or what?
Larry Flesner
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