Darrel, It is my opinion that the Ercoupe is no more quirky or prone to problems that any other airplane of its age. I would look at the very same things you look at on any airplane. Again, there is nothing strange about the plane, just people's reactions to it.
Given the choice of rudders pedals....no rudder pedals, I'll take NO PEDALS everytime. On thing I would check, very carefully, I the coupe has had a conversion to pedals, MAKE SURE THE THING IS PROPERLY RIGGED BEFORE YOU FLY IT. I doubt that all flying currently are rigged correctly. Never owned a coupe that had a fork nose gear, so all I can about it is the original design works just fine. On formation flight,I never flew formation in an ercoupe. My formation flying was done in Piper Cherokee 140 & 180's. There were three and on rare occasions four of us who flew in search of the $100.00 hamburger in formation. On take off we were in a diamond shape, I always flew Slot. The lead was always in front of me, right and left wingman to my side and ahead. The key to formation flying is knowing absolutly what the guy in front, bside and behind you is going to do, that it is done exactly the same everytime, and there is only one leader. I fly my position directly underneath leads plane usually 4 to 5 feet below where the tail skid on his plane was directly at my eleven o'clock. I drew a small circle on the windshield and it was my job to keep that tail skid in that position until were seperated for landing stewart
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