----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- If it was so great in a crosswind, then maybe it would not have a proven bad record of running off the side of the runway! I am so sick and tired of hearing what a great crosswind plane that thing is. Turning on the ground is yawing, and it should be hooked to a seperate rudder control. Fred Weick was no genius on this one. This was not his big invention - in fact it was a fad in the 30's among airplane designers wanting to make flying cars. It is not even a sensible idea because we are talking about two different axes here. It works fine most of the time until it catches you wrong one day, and then it will scare you good. Somebody will tell us the story of how God/Fred just happened to notice how driving with the wheel comes naturally to people, blah blah blah. Somebdoy else will tell the 45 knot crosswind story. Rudder pedals are fine for steering on the ground, unless of course they are Ercoupe pedals. Also the plane does land too darn fast. It comes down at a ferocious rate if you let it get slow. I think it is a great plane, but I hate to hear the same dubious "advantages" recited over and over by enthusiasts. You can't fly an Ercoupe like most old planes, that is all I was saying. It won't slow down worth a heck and that makes your manuevers wider. Glen Ward
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