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Larry. Check your airspeed meter. I can fly my Coupe at 45 MPH with tanks half empty and just me in it (190 ##) - no stall , full throttle though. To repeat the story of our second Coupe: That one had an airspeed meter showing bullshit , someone put a worthless piece of ยง$%t into his plane just to save some money. arghh. landing that plane at speeds around 65 was only possible with full power on final. After replacing the airspeed meter normal readings appeared and normal behavior of the Coupe too. I tried several times to land the plane at 60 - 70 like the book wants it - all that ended just in a very fast decent and a hard bounce. No good. God knows what speed I was really flying. I had to hold 80 on final. to fly a normal approach. Of course these 80 MPH were just a fiction - something what the airspeed meter was making up. I think it is a very good idea to have the airspeed meter checked from time to time especially since the coupe starts sinking when reaching lower speeds . By the way . I believe this tendency to sink is just the trade off needed by design to keep the coupe in a controllable flying condition at low speeds. The Cessnas might be better sail planes but they probably stall then more abrupt, while Weick's planes are just gently lowering the noses and just lose altitude. If you know what to expect - I think Weick's planes are easier to deal with. So you might come down fast and land hard instead of stalling the plane on final - make your own judgment. (oh yes, I know Cessnas have flaps and ercoupes don't , I see it more like this: Cessnas need flaps and Ercoupes don't) Hartmut MAGIC VAC wrote: > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > If I had tried to fly around at 50 ias, I'd be on the ground. I get so > tired of you guys telling me that you fly at 50, cause for me to do that I'd > have had to be at full throttle just to keep from falling out of the sky. > It certainly wouldn't have been fun. > > Larry > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ralph.Maria Finch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Ercoupe Hangar Flying" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 8:05 AM > Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Slowest Cruise Speeds > > > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any > advice in this forum.]---- > > > > > > I'm with Hartmut. > > > > I can fly around at below 50mph IAS all day and not > > lose altitude with the correct throttle setting. Of > > course that wouldn't be considered a normal cruise, > > but it's certainly possible. > > > > The original poster seemed to want to fly in cruise > > with his buddies with their slower airplanes. This is > > easily done (70-80 mph) with no harm to anything > > except your sanity, you will be bored silly at those > > speeds. The Coupes make much better use of their > > ponies than most aircraft. > > > > As for "falling out of the sky" at lower airspeeds, > > why propagate that myth?? The Coupes sink more than > > the notorious Cessna floaters that we are all trained > > on, but that simply means it takes a couple of flights > > to learn new habits. I quickly came to appreciate the > > Coupes' characteristics and now dislike the Cessnas' > > tendency to resist landing. My landings are > > consistently much better with the Coupes. > > > > ---------------------------- > > From: Hartmut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Slowest Cruise Speeds > > > > That does not make sense. > > When flying slow , the engine does not generate much > > heat, the cowl > > flaps on a Coupe are wide open all > > the time and I doubt a extreme nose high attitude is > > given at speeds at > > around 85 MPH.... > > I find my Coupe extreme nose high with 45 MPH, but > > would not consider > > this a practical low speed flying > > technique. > > All other Speeds should allow for sufficient cooling > > in regard to the > > power setting. > > > > Hartmut > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > ========================================================================== == > == > > To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm > > > > ========================================================================== ==== > To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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