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Dont hold back Richard, let it all out..... :-) LP -----Original Message----- From: Richard Wilkens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 4:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Paperwork ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- You know we haven't had lively discussion on this list in years, so let's start one. We just had a member use the following phase "...Too many Ercoupes have poor paperwork, undocumented mods..." As many of you know I collect Ercoupe records and have probability read as many individual Ercoupe FAA airworthiness records as anyone. Take for example the clock in the middle of my panel, I think it was put there in 1965, but there is no 337 for it. Oh dear the world will come to an end! Our Leader will be unhappy! In the 17 years I have had my Coupe not a single AP has said anything about it. Does that mean the 16 annuals I have had were done by BAD APs? (That would mean ten out of ten APs I have used over the years are all bad. If we go back the full 40 years since the clock was put in, who knows how many bad APs have worked on my Coupe. That even includes Skyport--many years before John owned it.) When I flow 904 over an 11,000 foot pass with the ceiling low enough you couldn't see the top of the mountains, I didn't care that the clock doesn't have a 337 on file with the FAA. What I cared about is that my AP just finished an annual and 904 was running great with all gauges in the green. If I had put it into the mountain that day, do you think the FAA would have checked for the 337 on my clock? I have noticed reading FAA airworthiness files all one has to do is ask his current AP to check the installation of the "mods" and they will file a 337 for the "mod" saying "I have inspected the previously installed 'mod' and it was done in accordance with FAA rule XXXX.xxx." So what is the big deal? I don't think that because the FAA doesn't have a piece of paper on file makes an airplane something to worry about or "...pay scrap prices...". If you have bad paperwork and want scrap prices give me a call, I have money in the bank. I firmly agree with one letter I read in a FAA registration file. The guy was having a problem getting his registration done with the FAA. He wrote them saying something like "If you don't send me the registration, my airplane will fly just as well without it." Richard N99904 ========================================================================== == == To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/ ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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