Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 06:30:50 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from spknpop1.spkn.uswest.net ([207.108.48.1] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0b7) with SMTP id 1712422 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:05:34 -0400 Received: (qmail 43296 invoked by uid 0); 27 Aug 2002 02:59:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ckrouse) (63.227.98.97) by spknpop1.spkn.uswest.net with SMTP; 27 Aug 2002 02:59:14 -0000 X-Original-Message-ID: <004901c24d77$017cd380$6162e33f@ckrouse> From: "C Krouse" X-Original-To: "Lancair Mailing List" References: Subject: Re: [LML] Re: first flight X-Original-Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 20:08:23 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 It's not take offs that I worry about.....it's the controlled or uncontrolled crash that get's my pucker factor too high to consider first flight. Curtis Krouse N753K > I agree with all written on the advantages of a test pilot, but I 'll > put in my 2 cents from experience. I've made 5 first flights in planes from > a Hummelbird to a Glassair, a KIS two place was my first at 52 hrs. total > logged pilot hours and my experience was the same in all of them; two > seconds after lift-off I knew I had it, it was an airplane, piece of cake. > If the plane is reasonably well built, with CG in the recommended range, on > a calm day, with adequate runway, it's more a matter of nerve than skill. > If you don't have the nerve...don't, but I'll bet that ES is a big 'ol > pussycat to fly. At 30 mph you'll be pretty much off the brakes and > steering with rudder. Another consideration; if my plane had a major > "flaw" that endangered or killed the test pilot, I'd have trouble living > with that. OK guys, I've got my asbestos jammies on 8^). > Rich Kindig