RE: [COUPERS-TECH] Model C to D conversion paperwork

[Greg Bullough]

You know, all this aside, my favorite way of landing the Ercoupe has become
to pull on carb heat at mid-field, and then ring 'finished with engine' abeam the
numbers. Adjust airspeed for a glide that will cause a nice continuous 180-
degree turn that straightens out at the threshold to put me about 200 feet
past the numbers (we have near 2400 feet at N40 and I'm not giving a number,
but it's faster than you'd think), which  takes me past the areas of eternal gust
and shear and lets me choose 'greaser or thump.'

This puts me INSIDE of the high-tension lines under the approach to 25,
guarantees that I make the field, saves about 30 seconds in the pattern
and gives me ongoing practice for the real engine failure that might come
some day.

By the way, remember that in an Ercoupe if you are practicing dead-stick
landings and you make a beautiful landing 'on the numbers' you've just
gotten a C-minus on the test. Because that means anything that came
up, (like a down-draft) to make you short would have left you...short.

These things land in very little space anyway. Don't come up short just
to prove that you can avoid using the last 1200 feet of runway!

Greg