Marty, That is great... never landed on a beach before. I assume you need to be sure to close your carb heat pretty quickly after touchdown if you use it.
Does that make your Ercoupe a BeachCraft now? Appreciate the links and the video. Best, John On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Marty Due <marty-d...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > A couple of Saturdays ago, we flew down to Westport, WA, and then up to > Copalis Beach, where we landed on the beach. Supposedly, it is the only > state airport on an ocean beach. We landed just after high tide. There are > as can be as many as 70 planes there on a good day, I read somewhere. Here > is the airport guide info and pic: > > http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/aviation/AllStateAirports/CopalisBeach_CopalisState.htm > > Here is a video of us on the beach after landing (my copilot forgot to push > the record button on the camera while we were landing, with all the > excitement of landing there for the first time): > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SKkJsF9SLw > > and here is a video of us taking off: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k-rs4m29Q0 > > When we got back to KRNT, we thouroughly washed down the whole airplane, > especially the gear. Although we don't plan on doing this often, we look > forward to going back down there again when a lot more folks are down > there. There are a lot of videos of planes landing down there on You Tube, > including an old twin Beach taildragger. One of the local we met on the > beach said a guy with a turbine Goose comes down once in awhile and > impresses everyone while he back the plane up the beach after landing. > Cool! > Marty Duke N846MD KRNT > >
