I had about 125.
Brian Kraut
Engineering Alternatives, Inc.
www.engalt.com
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From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net]On
Behalf Of curry
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 9:17 PM
To: kr...@mylist.net
Subject: KR> How many flight hours before fly
Fight hours - I had about 450 in many different kinds of airplanes. 80
hours taildragger Cessna 185 time. Flying my dad's KR2 -Revmaster 2180 turbo-
was no problem - only noticed real sensitivity when at gross weight. This
tendancy is much better in N41768 - the KR2S. I feel that flying
If you need to find someone to get some dual in type or similar contact the
EAA. They have a listing of flight technical advisors that should be able
to help you out. As far as getting similar training flying a rv and doing
no flap approaches would help. It's my opinion and the opinion of
There are low-time spam-can pilots who have flown a KR without any previous
time in a KR and I applaud them. I had the same experience that Steve Eberhardt
did when I flew with Marty Roberts - I made an extreme effort to hold my hand
very still and the plane either went nose UP or nose DOWN.
by several people on the net with speeds. follow them and you will have no
problem.
Lee
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From: "Orma" <o...@aviation-mechanics.com>
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Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 11:47 AM
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Hi Jeff
After posting I did realize that There are a lot of pilots who have other
experiences. But, in the old days 84 all we had was the news letters, and
seeing a KR was limited to Oshkosh. My first flight was a mistake. We had
all been told to have lots of hours on the engine to ensure
o...@aviation-mechanics.com>
To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: KR> How many flight hours before flying KR ??
> Hi Jeff
> After posting I did realize that There are a lot of pilots who have other
> experiences. But, in the
How many flight hours did you guys have before trying out a KR ?? I'm a
student pilot wondering what it takes to tame one of these things..
Curry
CorvAIRCRAFT web site at www.flykr2s.com
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From: "curry" <cur...@msn.com>
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Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 8:17 PM
Subject: KR> How many flight hours before flying KR ??
> How many flight hours did you guys have be
I only had 60 hours or so when I completed and made the first flight in my
KR. I had no taildragger time. No problems
Orma
Southfield, MI
KR-2 N110LR 1984
See Tweety at http://www.kr-2.aviation-mechanics.com
See other KR spces at www.kr-2.aviation-mechanics.com/krinfo.htm
et" <kr...@mylist.net>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: KR> How many flight hours before flying KR ??
> I only had 60 hours or so when I completed and made the first flight in my
> KR. I had no taildragger time. No problems
>
> Orma
> Southfield, MI
KR-2 Flying
> N839BG
> Home page http://web.qx.net/jeffyork40/
> My KR-2 http://web.qx.net/jeffyork40/Airplane/ to see my KR-2
> Email jeffyor...@qx.net
>
>
>
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> From: "Orma" <o...@aviation-mechanics.com>
>
That is great advise, but where do you get a short coupled, high performance
two place with dual control, that someone will let you get time in? I am
not advocating this, but I had 155 hours of almost nothing but C-150 time
along with a 5 hour course in a Citabria where I never got to take off or
And one more thing you have to do before flying your KR, is READ THIS
http://members.socket.net/~jfaughn/kr/uniquepartsofmykr/kr_landing.html
See N64KR at http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on the pics
See you in Mt. Vernon - 2006 - KR Gathering
There is a time for building and a time for
This is very good Dan, but I would also suggest going to KRNET and
Langfords website and read Bill Reents account about his KR-1 He taxied
it for ten hours to get the feel before he flew it and it made me sick
because I started the KR-1 in 1970 and built the fuselage and tail and
the wing spars
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 20:17:04 -0600 "curry" writes:
> How many flight hours did you guys have before trying out a KR ??
> I'm a student pilot wondering what it takes to tame one of these
> things..
>
> Curry
>
Curry and all,
I had about 112 hours over a 10 year period in
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