Jimmie Phelps wrote:
> Merry Christmas Chad and the rest of you on the list: > > I would advise to get your lic. in a conventional plane.(a tail > dragger would be even better, I wish they even taught spins.) than get > your training in the Ercoupe. > > Here is my exp.-- I learned simultainously in a J-3 and a Ercoupe and > soloed in the Ercoupe on my sixteenth birthday and than a mo. later > soloed in the cub. Fo 15 yr.s beteween Coupes I flew mainly a > Tri-Pacer, also a Aeronca > Champ and a PA-14 family cruiser. Two of my sons first soloed and got > their lic. in Pipers, one in a Cherokee and one in a Tomahawk. I > believe we are better pilots for it. Also from time to time after you > fly the coupe (pun) I believe it's good to do some time back in a > conventional craft. > > On spins: How do you all feel on this.??.. I believe you can't fully > prepare someone to recover from a spin unless they have been trained > by a number of them entered from several atitudes. I believe the > panic of entering a unsupecting spin (because it's a feeling all it's > own) would be overwheling and everything told you wouldn't be there. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> I am a student pilot training in a Kitana who has fallen in love >> with the >> Ercoupe and plan to make it my bird to fly, but my question is: Do I >> learn to >> fly in the Kitana or should I look to purchase the Ercoupe now and >> learn to >> fly in it? >> >> Any thoughts would be appreciated. >> >> 'Couper to be >> >> Chad Surmick, Santa Rosa, CA > >
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