I really love Kitfox STI. Even playing with keyboard, its control is very accurate and sensitive. Switched off assistents for giro and rudder… do it yourself - rudder walk on takeoff - gives the best results.
Today I did encounter something very strange though, it seems Kitfox STI can takeoff backward. Fly up a slope and land, e.g. LS60 Rockfall … then let it roll back, gentle rudder left, leave full throttle on and reverse the elevator (down) will result in Kitfox lifting up when it goes backward… did not succeed in finishing my flight, but see what happened…
My explanation:
This is not a bug IMHO. While pause was still on, I figured that keeping the elevator up, rolling downward would tilt the airplane forward quickly and make it roll over its propellor into the ground. So after releasing the pause button, I quicky revert the elevator to down, to prevent that. I had not expected a lift off !
I guess the tailwheel went up slowly, tilting the plane to horizontal. The plane now catched upward air flow , because of the speed it had.The front wheels detached too and from the cockpit you can see it leaving the ground ! At that moment, airspeed would have been negative (30 knots or so!) and stall beeper went off continuously, also going forward in the end. Not enough speed. Out of countrol, turn over…