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One of my favorite replies is "Have you ever flown an Ercoupe? When
they answer with a 'no' just
smile and say "Then you obviously have no idea what you're talking about
do you? I have flown both 2
and 3 axis planes and there is no comparison, I bought the one that was
the best."
Bob Saville
craig hinton wrote:
> ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following
any advice in this forum.]----
>
> Paul Tanzar wrote:
> > 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
> >
> I don't know why more small GA airplanes don't use the coordinated
> control system. At least provide a lever or knob on the panel so the
> pilot could select 3 contol or control. Probably 90% of the time Cessna
> and Mooney drivers do not need to apply rudder.Same goes for the big
> iron. Paul is right about pilot ego etc. I have heard all the 'kiddy
> car', sissy stuff too. Always amusing?, to have pilots come up to me at
> fly-ins and tell me that you can't land Coupes in a x-wind cause there
> is 'no rudders'. Lot of superstition and ignorance out there in the
> flying community. Craig 2623H
> >
> > --- Glen Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm
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> > >
> > > 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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