I had to try and find a CFI as well for my coupe. The First CFI I
had
was happy until the first good cross wind landing, that was after about 5
hours if instruction, He soloed it for about an hour before starting
instruction. After the first X wind landing and the fact that the climb
was
a little slow made him uncomfortable in the coupe he had about 3500 hours
as
a CFI.
My new instructor who got me soloed in the coupe spent about 1.5 hours
flying about by himself. many landing and takeoffs etc. has been
wonderful.
unfortunately he was not familiar with the coupe and we learned together,
what her limitation and foibles were! It has worked out pretty well!
I do think that a CFI with coupe experience would have been helpful
with
some of the details!
Brian N93462
----- Original Message -----
From: Percy Pwood Georgia Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mi Vida Loca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: Getting a CFI checkout for two-control Coupe
> I agree with you, Dave.
> I had more `coupe hours than my CFI did on my first biannual. I had
> `bout 265 hours in a Cessna 150, but that had been 4 or 5 years prior.
> He even said "I have heard that these things don't stall." So we took
> `er up a couple thousand feet AGL. Sure enough, it didn't.
> The bottom line is that eventhough a person has the rating, even if
> they have some experience, they may not have experienced the special
> joy of the Ercoupe.
> Percy
>
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