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advice in this forum.]----

Unfortunately, for a good many pilots, image and ego
play a big role in their approach to flying. The
rudder pedal crowd looks down on the 'Coupes, the
tailwheel crowd looks down on the nose wheel, those
who've spun look down on those who, etc. I believe
that same image/ego factor causes pilots to put
themselves in planes they are not up to mastering, and
make go/no go decisions they shouldn't. Me, I just
like being up there on a pretty day, and if I can get
up there and back more easily, safely, and
economically, that's all that counts. I worked on a
tailwheel checkout last fall in a Cessna 140, and
after dancing on the pedals every landing, straining
to see where I was taxiing, constantly realigning the
controls to the wind as I taxied about, I thought:
why? Add to that my home airport, with its single
concrete runway that is never aligned with the wind,
and it's 'Coupe time!
Paul


--- Glen Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm
> before following any advice in this forum.]----
> 
> Wow, some people have a problem.  What a bunch of
> nasty stuff.  Pretty
> shameful to put it right next to ones for sale.  I
> always found that kind of
> talk to be disconcerting when I was looking to buy
> one but now I am a
> believer, at least in terms of the plane's strengths
> outweighing its
> troubles.  I am not sure why people ever thought it
> was a sissy plane.  It
> has always seemed to me to be fairly difficult to
> fly.
> 
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