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Ron Hynes asked:
> Has anyone ever made a list of all the items that are
> preferred items that would be wanted already installed
on
> an Ercoupe at time of purchase?
Ron,
Here’s a stab at it:
Necessary to me:
Fabric wings (except in late model that
came from factory with metalized wings)
Eligible for the appropriate pilot license
(i.e. Private, Sport or something Canadian)
Good brakes, i.e. Cleveland or Goodyear in
very good condition
Desirable:
All
O-200 engine or O-200 crank if you live in
high density altitude areas
Desirable to me: climb prop
Sport Pilot eligible mode – LSA eligible
No
more than basic instruments and avionics
Airspeed
Altimeter
Magnetic
compass
Tachometer
Oil
pressure
Oil temperature
EGT
Radio –
either hand-held or modern, very light com
GPS –
hand-held as good as can afford
Try to get approval for modern
solid state artificial horizon for emergency backup
Polished to save weight
No upholstery side
panels, no firewall panel, fabric baggage compartment, lightest possible carpet
Private Pilot eligible VFR mode
I’d stay with the
avionics/instruments above
Position lights,
anticollision lights (strobe), panel lights
Allow upholstery side
panels, firewall panel, rug, 9 cu. ft. baggage
Model D or higher
Private Pilot eligible IFR mode (note: I’m
not IFR so this is just speculation)
As above, plus
IFR instruments
Vacuum
AH
Solid
state electrical AH for backup
Note that
this might be your real primary with the
vacuum AH
as the real backup
DG
VSI
Radio with
VOR
Backups of
critical instruments
Dream mode
Replace all antique instruments with glass
panel TSOd, lightweight modern instrument package with only necessary
conventional backup.
These are my thoughts, now, for preferred
configuration. I bet this draws comment.
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