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1. 04:50 AM - Re: Just bought a Firefly (Richard Pike)
2. 06:57 AM - Re: Just bought a Firefly (racerjerry)
3. 05:21 PM - Re: Just bought a Firefly (Dennis Rowe)
4. 08:12 PM - Re: Just bought a Firefly (Keith84)
5. 08:15 PM - Re: Just bought a Firefly (henry.voris)
6. 09:54 PM - Re: Re: Just bought a Firefly (blong6826)
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| Subject: | Re: Just bought a Firefly |
What Stuart said.
Different topic: I assume you have a gap seal for the area between the wings but
simply took the picture without it? And that you had it installed when you did
your high speed taxis? Because a Kolb with no gap seal is not a happy experience.
Just checking.
Now go find some taildragger dual and everything will be lovely.
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Richard Pike
Kolb MKIII N420P (420ldPoops)
Kingsport, TN 3TN0
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| Subject: | Re: Just bought a Firefly |
The Firefly does not behave AT ALL like a Cessna 150; let alone a 172. Kolbs are
very draggy and have low inertia and consequently slow down immediately when
you get off the throttle. To make matters worse, because of the high thrust
line of the pusher prop; when you close the throttle, the nose will pitch up
and can easily get you too close to stall speed if you are not prepared. When
the throttle is closed, you must immediately be ready with forward stick pressure
to maintain airspeed or as many say: "... the ground will rise up and smite
thee."
As far as taildragger experience, make your early flights off of a grass strip
before moving on to paved runways. My Firestar II was never a problem because
of its comparatively long fuselage and reward location of main wheels (closer
to CG than most airplanes).
Don't get me wrong; Kolbs are an absolute joy to fly, but training in a Cessna
and jumping into a Kolb without instruction or experience in VERY light aircraft
can easily get you hurt. EVERYTHING is different.
The best practice you can have is to find someone with a 2-place Kolb which will
have fight characteristics very similar to your Firefly.
I wish you the best of luck with this fun airplane.
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Jerry King
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| Subject: | Re: Just bought a Firefly |
Nice looking bird, Fireflys are great flying craft.
Easy on the controls, they are very responsive. Remember you will be using left
rudder on takeoff and climb, not right like GA aircraft.
Fly it right down to the grass before you flair as these baby's slow down super
fast when you flair. Don't want to drop it in.
Dennis "Skid" Rowe
Mk3, Rotax 670,
Leechburg, PA
> On Jun 27, 2015, at 2:04 PM, Keith84 <keithdienelt@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I wanted to introduce myself, name is Keith and I live in central texas. I
have 40 hrs between a cessna 152&172 but lost my medical while I was preparing
for PPL oral and check ride. Well that was a year ago, a couple weeks ago I bought
a part103 legal firefily! So far it seems to run pretty well, i have only
done a few high speed taxis but it seems to get squirly rather fast. I have
been pretty hesitant to fly it honestly, every time i go to the grass strip its
based at I am determined to crow hop it. Then once i try i get nervous at how
squirly it is. The tail wheel configuration is pretty foriegn to me! I suppose
their is no reason to rush! If you guys have any tips I would love to hear
them!
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| Subject: | Re: Just bought a Firefly |
The rotax 447 has 62" tn prop with a B gear box I believe but I need to make sure.
I do have a vynel wing gap cover, the veco on the wings was done very poorly
but works... Kinda. I want to replace it with a plexiglass piece eventually.
Thanks for all the great advice! I have tracked down a school in waco that has
a tail dragger! I will call them tomorrow to gather some more information. I havent
found any two place kolbs in the fort hood area yet, just a bunch of challenger
2's and a couple quicksilvers unfortunately. Hopefully I can get in to
waco in the next week or two to get some lessons!
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98' Kolb FireFly
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| Subject: | Re: Just bought a Firefly |
Keith,
Squirly on high speed taxi ya say??? Had the same problem when I first went to
fly my FireFly... After several exiciting episodes of exiting the runway at right
angles to my intended route, I came to the conclusion, while dragged the plane
outta the bushes, that high-speed taxing and crow hopping are some of the
most dangerous activities a transitional pilot can engage in. Best to wind her
up, get off the ground and fly away...
After learning more about the aircraft, I realized that the camber on the wheels
was way out. Hard landings will do that. After bending things back to where
I figured they should be, she tracked like a new airplane. Quick check, stand
in front of your airplane, look at the wheels, if the top of the wheels lean towards
the center of the airplane you may want to consider resetting the camber.
Don't know if you're aware but Jack Hart on this list has a fine site covering
many technological aspects of the FireFly... Although I can't remember if he covers
this subject.
Aloha,
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Henry
Firefly Five-Charlie-Bravo
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