[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Enough already this is the "coupe" mailing list. Some of us voted when we > bought our coupes and don't give a damn about "one-filthies", if we did we'd > have bought one. I have the use of one while my coupe is down for needed > engine work and wouldn't take it if it were given to me. I'm 250 pounds and > 5-ten and it's a very poor craft for us biggie pilots. Me I sit in the > middle with a foot on each side and duck my head in the middle. It like the > mooney is too narrow to keep both feet one side only. Besides my coupe out > runs both 140's and 150's./tom let's get back to "coupes."
Hey Tom,
Don't be so hard on yourself, and the rest of us. Personally, I
sort
of enjoy hearing all the different reasons that my coupe is better than
a C-150. I think most of us have had some, or possibly most, of our
training in the C-150. I know I did, I went all the way to "privatae"
in one of them. I never had the desiere to own one but they did their
part in my getting to fly "legally". I grew up with airplanes as my dad
has been flying since before I was born. I've gone with him in about
everything that had wings on it and after WWII he went through about a
dozen or so of the surplus 'almost free' airplanes.
After I went into the USAF I missed that part of my civilian
probably
more than anything else so I was forced to get a license if I wanted to
rent a plane. That was the first time I was ever in a Cessna, it wasn't
as much fun as I'd been used to with dad in his menagerie, but it got me
in the air and I was grateful for that.
After I retired from the USAF I started renting the 'new' piper
series
of low-wing craft and I liked that much better than the high wingers
with their poor visibility and poorer handling characterists than the
low wingers. To this point I had always rented, I never found the
'right' plane for me, one that I just felt 'right' about.
Then one day a friend of mine took me for my first ride in a
coupe.
After about 20 minutes or so we landed and I bought it from him on the
spot.
I thank the C-150's for helping me to get a license, and I don't
mind
being reminded here on the list about how much better my coupe is than
the old 'basic' training machines.
Having said all this, I guess there has been about enough about
how
much better ours is than the rest. It's just that there are so many of
us out here who are aware of this that we all want to 'let the world
know' about it.
I think I've gotten more than my 2 cents worth on this one, so
I'll
close and move on to the rest of my mail.
What model do you have Tom and what engine do you have that does
such a
good job for you?
Bob Saville
N3396H 415C
Eugene, OR
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