At 08:13 AM 9/12/99 EDT, you wrote: >Please accept my appologies M10 owners. I did not intend to put down any
>aircraft. I know you didn't...I'm sure that you just meant that the good 2-control features were lost when Mooney went back to the "regular" configuration. I think they wanted it to be a trainer though, so that couldn't very well leave it without a rudder control. Maybe some people who fly Ercoupes don't like the way the M-10 flies, but I've flown a lot of other planes and I think it flies pretty well. A lot of the things I like about it are probably the same as the Ercoupe, it's easy to fly, real easy to land (once you figure out where "straight-ahead is on the cowl), and can fly pretty well without even touching the rudder. In fact I could say that this thing could fly fine with a fixed rudder, because if I don't use it it's still doesn't slip or skid much and adverse yaw is minimal. I DO like it for crosswinds though, even though I could probably land crabbed without it, I MUCH prefer the idea of landing wing-low and aligned with the runway. I've ridden through my share of crabbed landings with students and don't like them a bit. The closest thing this Mooney reminds me of is a '59 Bonanza that I used to fly. You didn't need to use the rudder much in it, either. And it landed about the same, and had the same wiggle in turbulence.
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