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I think the statement Linda makes..."You'd be surprised how isolated
a brand new Ercoupe owner can be, even at a decent-sized urban
airport like Torrance, CA (TOA). There are NO active A&Ps here who
know Ercoupes -- and I've asked all around."...is the most accurate I
have heard in a long while.
As a new Ercoupe owner (since Oct) I have struggled to find help of
any kind at KAPC (Napa, CA) or it's environs. Without the help of
this list to keep me focused in the right direction, I would likely
sell and try a plane I could find support for. I'm willing to pay
for the help, just cannot find it! I also spent 10 days with the
local AI at the FBO finding a loose wire that this list helped me
focus on.
thanks to all.
Kim Blackseth
Tom,
It sounds like you may have misunderstood my purpose in asking the
Tech list for help, so I'm posting my reply there as well, in case
others also misunderstood.
You wrote, "You might just have to bite the bullet and pay an
expert to come in and
fix your radio. Expensive up front, but worth it in the long term."
Tom, I did not appeal to the list to avoid paying an expert. I
would be very willing to pay an expert to fix the problem -- if I
could FIND one! I was not posting to get free help, but to get
competent help. You'd be surprised how isolated a brand new
Ercoupe owner can be, even at a decent-sized urban airport like
Torrance, CA (TOA). There are NO active A&Ps here who know Ercoupes
-- and I've asked all around. I spent most of last Sunday walking
around and asking. Everyone I have asked has said that THERE IS NO
radio shop at TOA, and there ARE NO avionics people who are known
to be knowledgeable in trouble-shooting radios. I know only one,
part-time avionics man who moonlights from United, but he doesn't
have time for my plane. (He's part of a part-time A&P team that
had my plane sit on the ground for 2 weeks last month, just waiting
for them to take care of one loose wire -- which had already been
diagnosed by an Ercoupe A.I./A&P at a fly-in! I had been resorting
to that part-time team because they were all I knew, but they had
never worked on Ercoupes before, and charged me for learning time
-- in addition to being too busy for my plane. Guess they have
bigger fish to fry...)
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