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Larry, Is it possible you were in mountain wave and not thermals? I live in thermal country, even have them in the winter, and they tend to be somewhat intermittant and pretty bumpy with the tendency to rotate you off course. Mountain wave is less rough and doesn't have near the tendency to rotate the aircraft. I have often paralleled a mountain range at a distance of about 5 miles on the lee side taking advantage of the up wave. Flying my Cardinal once toward Denver I was on the range east of Albuquerque headed north and since it has a constant speed prop, I was able to maintain an open throttle and with the nose down to maintain altitude was holding the airspeed just below the red line for 20 minutes (which at over 200 mph ground speed was a bunch of miles). The multiple thermal condition is the one situation where I have found the pedal-less coupe lacking because of the inability to maintain the nose on the course line and thus requiring a banking turn back to course each time. This could be up to several times a minute, in other terms, almost continuously. Rudder pedals solve this problem and make the trip much easier. I suspect Fred never flew his creation over the desert through nearly continuous thermal/dust devil/whirlwind (all the same thing) conditions. Dick, whirling New Mexico ----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Wilkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 3:11 PM Subject: [COUPERS] ERCOUPE GLIDER PILOT > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > didn't stop climbing until I was at 10,500 ft. Couldn't believe 50 > miles of thermals. Indicated speed was near 120 for the entire > Larry ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiLm.aVzvvT Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
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