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Ben-PA

Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 44 Location: Berwick, Pa
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Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 5:48 pm Post subject: tires |
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You need just a touch left rudder there, Dee.
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janderson412(at)hotmail.c Guest
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Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 8:05 pm Post subject: tires |
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You mean "yaw" ind...Dee. I have one too on my turn & bank, find I need
right 1/2 ball of right pedal in cruse, has anyone fitted an ajustable
rudder tab?? John A.
From: "Dee Young" <henrysfork1(at)msn.com>
Reply-To: kitfox-list(at)matronics.com
To: <kitfox-list(at)matronics.com>
Subject: Re: tires
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 19:17:10 -0600
I installed a bank indicator right in front of me on the panel. It has made
it very easy to keep the plane straight on final. This may work for some
you.
Dee Young
KF II N345DY
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From: Lowell Fitt
To: kitfox-list(at)matronics.com
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: model 3 tires
A thought or two on tires.
A friend had the flatter tread golf cart type tires and will tell you that
the flat tread caused a significant cruise speed reduction. I understand
the rap on the knobby tires is that they can catch and throw rocks - not
good for fabric wings, though another guy in our group has worn his knobbys
nearly flat and has no wing holes.
I have the big two ply puppies and have three years and about three hundred
hours on them and my log book says just about one landing on average per
hour, mostly on pavement. I don't see any cord yet. There is a guy in the
neighborhood - a CFI - that used to give me my bi-annual flight review and
he loved low level stuff - you know, the down the runway dance with first
right tire then left and so on. The only problem was I couldn't convince
him that the visual track in a Kitfox was not like a Cessna. I changed
tires out after every review and once after he took a guy up - or I guess
more accurately down and sideways for the hour his insurance needed. I've
got a new guy now.
The point is; if your tires are wearing quickly, check your alignment with
the runway on landing. An easy way to do it is to align your airplane on
the ground with a distant object - a tree is great. Then climb in and check
where the tree appears in your windshield. That is straight ahead. Then
take a grease pencil or a thin strip of tape and mark the tree. Now you
have straight ahead on the windsheild. Land with that on the far end of the
runway, saves tires and lowers the tendency to do what tailwheel airplanes
try to do all the time.
One further note. When returning from Idaho several years ago six of us
were fleeing some nasty looking weather and decided to land at Jackpot,
Nevada to overnight and hope. The runway ran west to east and we were in
strong tailwinds from the north. The first guy in was our most experienced
pilot - my new bi-annual guy, in a nose dragging Rans by the way - and he
announced an estimate of "8 at 90 degrees". After we were all on the
ground, I was glad he was dead wrong because if he had announced 28 at 90
degrees, I would have started thinking - thinking left wing down opposite
rudder etc., flying way behind the airplane. As it worked out I kept the
airplane aligned with the runway with the windshield tape over the opposite
end of the runway and did what I had to do to keep it there, resulting in a
perfect side slip to landing. Not pretty, mind you, but got it down. My
most vivid memory was not being able to tell when I was on the ground as
there was just too much motion - mostly pitching - even there.
Just some thoughts,
Lowell
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