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Guys. I passionate night flyer myself and familiar with the area, I must say one does not need a GPS to fly at night through the LA Basin. Although I find it quiet a task to make it through Class Bravo airspace with just a radio, maps and compass, it is possible. I flew myself on several occasion just by compass through the nights and, if carefully planned - nothing wrong with that. I assume that the careful planning Tim did was watching the weather, having no wind and no fog . Guess this was the luck factor he had. Cruising along the coast down there is pretty straight forward, day or night. One side is highly illuminated, the other side isn't. Hartmut N3330H ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Burkhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Coupe-List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 10:34 AM Subject: RE: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Night VFR Adventures > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > > > Greg, > > I've seen some black hole places here in the Midwest and Central States. > > Over Southern California, can there be any doubt about where the horizon > is on a clear night? It's BRIGHT on the ground there! > > Ed Burkhead > http://edburkhead.com/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove the QQQ) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Bullough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:27 PM > To: Coupe-List > Subject: RE: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Night VFR Adventures > > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following > any advice in this forum.]---- > > > I think it's also good to consider that in an airplane with relatively > light control forces like an Ercoupe, (or Bonanza) and low wings, > spatial disorientation can be a bigger problem than in, say, a 172. > > Granted, the spin-resistant design helps to remove one of the > possible outcomes. But a pilot with the 'leans' in a 'Coupe can > induce quite a nasty 'death spiral' when fear takes over. > > Greg > > ======================================================================== > ====== > 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/ > > > ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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