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-----Original Message----- From: William R. Bayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 11:36 AM To: Ed Burkhead Subject: WRB Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] attitude indicators. On Apr 16, 2005, at 8:24 AM, Ed Burkhead wrote: > All you people with discussion of inadvertent IFR are right on target. > If you get into that cloud and don't have useable instruments, your > life > expectancy is measured in seconds - from a few to a few hundred. > RLYFLYIN (WRB via Ed Burkhead's computer-I can't post directly) Please send responses directly to the list or to me, Bill Bayne @ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi all (WRB speaking), The intended points of my 4/14 11:12 PM FLYIN post and IMC experience were not very clear, and so I must question the above "one size fits all" conventional wisdom (which is certainly applicable to most private aircraft). 1. Even with a functioning Artificial Horizon, it is possible to enter IMC under conditions it is useless (tumbled). 2. At full power, a coupe may tend to keep doing whatever it's doing (good or bad). 3. IF your coupe is properly trimmed, at reduced RPM it will fly straight and level. Test it. If it doesn't, get it properly rigged. Learn it's capabilities (as opposed to yours) in good weather so these are available to you in emergency. 4. A throttled-back coupe in stable flight can be adjusted to climb,, descend or continue on a chosen heading by reference to the whiskey compass alone. It's not that simple, though; as the reaction of the compass is counter-intuitive (when compared to a DG which is intuitive). Practice in good weather (with a traffic observer) often enough to gain and maintain that capability. Will it do so on turbulence? Only to a point. Learn what is and is not possible. 5. The built-in stability of the Ercoupe can get you out of emergency situations no other aircraft will. I'm certainly not suggesting you should rely on this and explore its capability often. The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. 6. For the Ercoupe/Forney/Alon/Mooney owner that wants to acquire and exercise instrument flight privileges, the airframe is well suited. The obvious primary constraints are limited space and useful load for the high-end "everything but the kitchen sink with triple redundency" approach. Given sufficient money, you can install anything you want; but not everything that might prove handy someday! Chose wisely, test often and maintain well! Regards, William R. Bayne <____|-(o)-|____> (Copyright 2004) ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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