You won't change their minds.In their minds they are real pilots. Especially the tail wheel guys. They are really full of themselves. The only thing that will show them is to be out flying when the winds are too strong for them. Woody and I were out last year in winds that made everyone come out of their hangar to watch the dumb heads crash. We didn't go out to joy ride in it because it wasn't very comfortable but we were coming back from a flight and needed to land. Other folks would have had to divert to another field because at our field if there is a wind it is usually cross. We all get a lot of cross wind practice here.
Kevin1 --- In [email protected], "Donald" <dongen...@...> wrote: > > I have only had my coupe for four months, but when discussing it with my > aviator friends, almost always comes up the question "Does it have rudder > pedals?" > When I reply that it does not, invariably the response is "Oh you need to > install rudder pedals, they came out with the pedals later because they found > that you cannot land an Ercoupe in a crosswind without them". > I don't think anyones opinion was changed by my explanation. >
