----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- Glen, you must be in a bad mood tonight. I've flown my 'stock' 415C lots of times in cross winds that made me the only plane on the field that was flying. No, I can't boast that I've landed in a 45kt crosswind, but anytime you want to show off your skills to the 'grounded due to weather' span-cans just go up in a 'rudder-pedal impaired' coupe and show them what you can do in a 30kt cross wind on a narrow runway and not even come close to running of into the bushes. I think if you've heard of 'so many' coupes running off the runway you must have been reading sci-fi books again. We had a fly-in a couple of months ago over to the Oregon coast and it was so windy and bumpy trying to get in and out of there that of the dozen or more transit planes on the ramp they were all coupes except two. A beech B-18 (with twin tail, it looks like a twin engine coupe witha tail wheel) and the other one was a guy in our club who was flying a stinson. All the rest were coupes and it was a roller coaster ride for all of them. I haven't seen anything out there in a small personal plane that I'd trade my coupe for, even if I got some $$$ to boot. I guess opinions are like A-holes, everybody's got one. So this was mine.
Bob (no pedals) Saville N3396H 415C Eugene, OR g w wrote: > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > If it was so great in a crosswind, then maybe it would not have a proven > bad record of running off the side of the runway! I am so sick and > tired of hearing what a great crosswind plane that thing is. Turning on > the ground is yawing, and it should be hooked to a seperate rudder > control. Fred Weick was no genius on this one. This was not his big > invention - in fact it was a fad in the 30's among airplane designers > wanting to make flying cars. It is not even a sensible idea because we > are talking about two different axes here. It works fine most of the > time until it catches you wrong one day, and then it will scare you > good. Somebody will tell us the story of how God/Fred just happened to > notice how driving with the wheel comes naturally to people, blah blah > blah. Somebdoy else will tell the 45 knot crosswind story. Rudder > pedals are fine for steering on the ground, unless of course they are > Ercoupe pedals. Also the plane does land too darn fast. It comes down > at a ferocious rate if you let it get slow. I think it is a great > plane, but I hate to hear the same dubious "advantages" recited over and > over by enthusiasts. You can't fly an Ercoupe like most old planes, > that is all I was saying. It won't slow down worth a heck and that > makes your manuevers wider. Glen Ward > > __________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___________________________________________________________ > T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 > Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics __________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
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