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Ed, your suggestion is almost word for word what I wrote to the XXX not many years ago when I asked the XXX to have the Ercoupe minded people Research and supply all the necessary service information that people like myself could put to great use in order to be capable of examining these small aircraft properly and safely. I specifically needed to see in print what was a proper examination with regard to safety and peace of mind. At that time I felt that this could save lives and aircraft as well as reduce the public's negative impression of light aircraft. I had , and still do feel that this type of effort is the main reason that groups like XXX and others should even exist. It is the very reason that so many of us take the time and trouble to follow various web sites. It is also the very reason that I have been a member of XXX all these past years. Unfortunately my request got no where. Quite frankly, these days I see very little reason to subscribe to any group solely for a bunch of magazines full of colorful pictures that wind up each month tossed in the corner of my work shop. As a natural result, I no longer care to devote time and money to any such membership. .I much rather use the money to put fuel in my aircraft Tanks. PS.. I would just love to have copies of your "Pre- purchase and Annual Inspection. That is exactly what I tried to convince XXX to publish in their pretty magazines each month or so, on all small light aircraft. How many lives could have been saved ??? Right on Ed, You got right to the core of it as usual. Thanks again. Ron Hynes -------Original Message------- From: Ed Burkhead Date: 12/25/06 16:58:02 To: Ctech Subject: [COUPERS-TECH] Ercoupe supplement for A&Ps Heres a thought for this next several months: How about we put together a supplement document for mechanics? In the document would be the Coupe-specific things the mechanic needs to know and references to the documents which tell how to fix/maintain them. In example, for the control yoke, thered be mention of inspecting the chain the whatever, the play in the something, etc. Itd refer to the Service Manual page (or wherever) the mechanic needs to look to fix it. Id think itd be very valuable to hand the mechanic a document listing and describing the (no so many) special things about Coupes. Heck, theyre mostly just airplanes. But after having a quite good mechanic annual my plane for nine years, John Wright, Sr., found and showed me a number of things that needed to be done that my old mechanic just didnt see/check. This depends on you knowledgeable people to write things up, even if its not at all polished. Ill collate it and post it for revision until we get it the way we want. (Thats how I assembled the pre-purchase and annual inspection articles, way back when.) What do you think? Will you write something up and send it to me? Please? Ed Burkhead http://edburkhead.com ed -at- edburkhead???.com (change -at- to @ and remove "???") ============================================================================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
