Besides my wonky cowling, there's only one other thing I don't like about my coupe. The hand brake. Someone installed a Piper hand brake (quite a bit of engineering on the 337) that works OK for braking but makes a lousy parking brake. It pops off and bleeds down at the worst possible times and I've caught the airplane rolling a couple times. "Just hold the brake", right? Well, I try to whenever I run up, but sometimes I need a third hand to do everything at once. A foot brake would be sooooo much nicer-- one foot on the brake and two free hands. I notice that most Erco rudder coupes seem to have the foot brake removed, either because it interferes with the rudder controls or because it is in a bad location to get one's foot off the rudder and under to the brake. Does anyone still have a foot brake with rudder pedals, or has anyone installed a different single-brake system that works well with Erco rudder pedals installed?
Thanks, Dave
