Re: KR> Christmas flight (screwed up reply)

[Mark Langford via KRnet]

Sorry, that was meant for Larry Flesner.  We were kicking around 
somewhere we might fly some weekend, and I replied to the wrong email. 
Speaking of meeting KR folks, Robert Pesak, Mike Sylvester, and I flew 
into Andrews, NC to visit KRnetter Randy Bryant so he could try on a KR 
to see if it'd fit him.  That was a real blast, with great BBQ lunch, 
and a small taste of interesting "mountain" flying (don't laugh, Jeff 
Scott).  We need to do more of that kind of thing, but the cold and 
often windy weather is not the best time for it.  My biggest fear is 
going down in the woods somewhere and freezing to death!  I do carry 
some cold weather gear, but that's only good for so long.  I knowif 
I were flying behind a Continental I wouldn't be nearly so concerned, 
but this is a VW, and I'm rightfully nervous


Mark Langford
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Re: KR> Christmas flight

[Mark Langford via KRnet]

I thought Steve Bray lived in Tennesseemaybe Jackson TN.

Mark Langford
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On 12/25/2017 11:12 AM, Flesner via KRnet wrote:



I went for a brief Christmas flight this morning and caught Santa still 
making his rounds.  I blew the doors off his sleigh contraction and 
really spooked the reindeer.  I betting he will join the net soon and 
start building his own KR for next year. :-)  Let's not get on him for 
asking any dumb questions.  We must be good little boys and girls.


Larry Flesner

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Re: KR> Christmas flight

[Robert Russell via KRnet]

No flying here in Winnipeg Robert .. it was -28 C    Yes folks  minus 28 
with a wind so effectively around - 40 ish   Merry Christmas  to all  
Bob R
- Original Message -
From: Robert Pesak via KRnet 
To: KRnet 
Cc: Robert Pesak 
Sent: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 17:55:49 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: KR> Christmas flight

I went out the airport this morning, it was a crisp 28 degrees. 
I made three  local landings, after about 45 minutes total flight I 
couldn't feel my toes so I headed back to my heated hanger. You eather get 
what you want, or you get what you deserve.Robert Pesak

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Re: KR> Christmas flight

[Robert Pesak via KRnet]

I went out the airport this morning, it was a crisp 28 degrees. I made three  local landings, after about 45 minutes total flight I couldn't feel my toes so I headed back to my heated hanger. You eather get what you want, or you get what you deserve.Robert Pesak___
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Re: KR> Christmas flight

[Flesner via KRnet]

I flew the KR from my new place in North Central AR to join my wife for 
Christmas dinner at the in-laws in the SW corner of AR. Put 2.7 hrs on 
the KR and burned 15 gallons of fuel, about the same as my wife will 
burn driving her Honda Civic there and back. :o)

Jeff Scott


Christmas and KR's !!!  Life is good.

Larry Flesner

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Re: KR> Christmas flight

[Jeff Scott via KRnet]

Cc: Flesner 
Subject: KR> Christmas flight

I went for a brief Christmas flight this morning and caught Santa still
making his rounds.  I blew the doors off his sleigh contraction and
really spooked the reindeer.  I betting he will join the net soon and
start building his own KR for next year. :-)  Let's not get on him for
asking any dumb questions.  We must be good little boys and girls.

Larry Flesner

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That explains why the frazzled old elf was not so jolly and shook his fist at 
me as I blew by him while he was working his way SW from Larry's into Arkansas. 
 He yelled something to the effect of "Wait until next year".  I flew the KR 
from my new place in North Central AR to join my wife for Christmas dinner at 
the in-laws in the SW corner of AR.  Put 2.7 hrs on the KR and burned 15 
gallons of fuel, about the same as my wife will burn driving her Honda Civic 
there and back.  :o)

-Jeff Scott
Cherokee Village, AR

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Re: KR> Christmas flight

[Flesner via KRnet]

On 12/25/2017 12:54 PM, Mark Langford via KRnet wrote:

find a place for a chocolate pie





Christmas bummer !!!  But don't keep us in suspense, how was the pie?

I had one of my old "round" gauges fail once, right in the middle of an 
air race.  My oil temp was reading "zero" but all other gauges were 
functioning including the oil pressure which picked up it's read further 
down the system.  With "zero" read and good pressure I assumed it was 
the gauge or sender and finished the race.  A new sender fixed the problem.


I love round gauges and pneumatic tail wheel tires. :-)

I hope your family gets well soon.  We are fighting that crap on this 
end too.


Larry Flesner



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Re: KR> Christmas flight

[Mac McConnell-Wood via KRnet]

Happy Christmas Mark -and all your forbearing family !
Good luck and fly right !

Mac & Judy


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On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Mark Langford via KRnet <
krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote:

> Claire and almost had a Christmas flight too, but were denied!  Given that
> wife and son were sick as dogs, wife with bronchitis and son laid up in bed
> with the flu, we gave up on driving to visit my father this year, so Claire
> and I thought we'd just fly down to my father's farm and bring him lunch.
>  Wellwe were late getting out of the house, and I had to play 100LL /
> autofuel / Marvel Mystery oil games, rearrange flight bags, tools, find a
> place for a chocolate pie, etc, then I noticed one tire was awfully low
> (less than 20 psi, and therefore subject to "snakebite" on hard landings)
> and had to fix that, etc.  But I persevered, despite high crosswind
> predictions at both ends, and the fact that I'd likely have to get fuel for
> the trip back due to headwinds, and the low temps and blustery winds would
> have been bad if forced down somewhere.  So we finally packed into the
> stock width KR2 and taxied out to the runway.  After I swung the plane
> around to the preflight checklist, I noticed the wonderful MGL iEFIS was
> completely blank!  Swapping power to backup and main power buses had no
> effect. OK.I'm done, that's itthe last domino to fall before I
> scuttle the flight.  So I taxi back to the hangar, shut it all down, flip
> on the iEFIS with backup power (just for kicks), and it comes right up.
> Great, no way and I still flying now!
>
> This was reminiscent of a previous trip to the farm, where it worked fine
> all the way to my father's farm, but when I got ready to leave the screen
> was blank, with  no indication at all that it was functioning.  I was
> getting ready to yank it out to return to MGL but thought I'd give it a
> shot, and it fired right up!  I checked the Hobbs meter and it had run on
> the flight back, and engine and flight data had been recordedjust a
> dumb blank screen in the process!  Go figure.
>
> At the very least, the moral of this story is do a thorough preflight the
> night before such a flight, but it was a spur-of-the-moment thing that
> turned out to be a bad idea.  Well, at least I have the rest of the day to
> do constructive things in the basement
>
> Mark Langford
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>
>
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Re: KR> Christmas flight

[Joe Wallace via KRnet]

Tis’ a shame, but bet you are already on next years NAUGHTY LIST……..  and a HO 
HO HO to that ….. Merry Christmas jw

> On Dec 25, 2017, at 11:12, Flesner via KRnet  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I went for a brief Christmas flight this morning and caught Santa still 
> making his rounds.  I blew the doors off his sleigh contraction and really 
> spooked the reindeer.  I betting he will join the net soon and start building 
> his own KR for next year. :-)  Let's not get on him for asking any dumb 
> questions.  We must be good little boys and girls.
> 
> Larry Flesner
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Re: KR> Christmas flight

[Mark Langford via KRnet]

Claire and almost had a Christmas flight too, but were denied!  Given 
that wife and son were sick as dogs, wife with bronchitis and son laid 
up in bed with the flu, we gave up on driving to visit my father this 
year, so Claire and I thought we'd just fly down to my father's farm and 
bring him lunch.   Wellwe were late getting out of the house, and I 
had to play 100LL / autofuel / Marvel Mystery oil games, rearrange 
flight bags, tools, find a place for a chocolate pie, etc, then I 
noticed one tire was awfully low (less than 20 psi, and therefore 
subject to "snakebite" on hard landings) and had to fix that, etc.  But 
I persevered, despite high crosswind predictions at both ends, and the 
fact that I'd likely have to get fuel for the trip back due to 
headwinds, and the low temps and blustery winds would have been bad if 
forced down somewhere.  So we finally packed into the stock width KR2 
and taxied out to the runway.  After I swung the plane around to the 
preflight checklist, I noticed the wonderful MGL iEFIS was completely 
blank!  Swapping power to backup and main power buses had no effect. 
OK.I'm done, that's itthe last domino to fall before I scuttle 
the flight.  So I taxi back to the hangar, shut it all down, flip on the 
iEFIS with backup power (just for kicks), and it comes right up.  Great, 
no way and I still flying now!


This was reminiscent of a previous trip to the farm, where it worked 
fine all the way to my father's farm, but when I got ready to leave the 
screen was blank, with  no indication at all that it was functioning.  I 
was getting ready to yank it out to return to MGL but thought I'd give 
it a shot, and it fired right up!  I checked the Hobbs meter and it had 
run on the flight back, and engine and flight data had been 
recordedjust a dumb blank screen in the process!  Go figure.


At the very least, the moral of this story is do a thorough preflight 
the night before such a flight, but it was a spur-of-the-moment thing 
that turned out to be a bad idea.  Well, at least I have the rest of the 
day to do constructive things in the basement


Mark Langford
m...@n56ml.com
http://www.n56ml.com


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Re: KR> Christmas flight

[Joe via KRnet]

Nice, 

Too cold in northern Wisconsin to even go to the airport. -2 degrees
with wind chills of 20-30 below.

Joe. 

-From: "Flesner via KRnet" 
To: 
Cc: "Flesner"
Sent: 25-Dec-2017 17:12:00 +
Subject: KR> Christmas flight

 I went for a brief Christmas flight this morning and caught Santa
still 
 making his rounds. I blew the doors off his sleigh contraction and 
 really spooked the reindeer. I betting he will join the net soon and 
 start building his own KR for next year. :-) Let's not get on him for

 asking any dumb questions. We must be good little boys and girls.

 Larry Flesner

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KR> Christmas flight

[Flesner via KRnet]

I went for a brief Christmas flight this morning and caught Santa still 
making his rounds.  I blew the doors off his sleigh contraction and 
really spooked the reindeer.  I betting he will join the net soon and 
start building his own KR for next year. :-)  Let's not get on him for 
asking any dumb questions.  We must be good little boys and girls.


Larry Flesner

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