Hi Mike,
I couldn't agree more.
My A&P was also my flight instructor in the Ercoupe. Following his
first annual on it, we taxied out for flight, and I noticed a clearly
audible "clunk" when I was checking elevator movement (the elevator DID
move, though).
He said "you're the pilot...what are you going to do? I said "I'm
going to taxi back and see what the source of that noise is." To this
day, I don't know if he left the bolt out of the elevator rod where it
attaches to the elevator on purpose or not.
Regards,
WRB
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On Jul 19, 2009, at 19:42, [email protected] wrote:
I agree with a lot that has been said by people who I am sure have
more knowledge then me about Ercoupes. BUT I also strongly state that
as an owner or prospective owner you need to make yourself very
familiar with the aircraft you fly. I bought mine shortly after it had
been signed off by a reportedly reputable AI and several months and
thousands of dollars later I had an airworthy aircraft. Some issues
were so apparent and serious that I had to just suck it up and repair
them without reporting the person signing the annual or I could not
get another AI locally to sign it off because they did not want to get
in a disagreement (to put it politely) with another AI.
Mike Sigman
N3041H`
