Rocky Stevens wrote in
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On Aug 17, 9:33 pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:

Much of his design innovations have become standard in all planes (an
electric starter, all-metal construction, etc.) and were quite modern
for the time -- but much of them did NOT become standard, meaning
that learning to fly in an Ercoupe is pretty much a developmental
dead-end. You'll never know how to fly a plane with rudder pedals if
you train in one that only has a brake pedal on the floor!


That is what I thought at first as well, but then I got to thinking: I
learned to drive in an automatic, and later learned to drive a stick.
Also, many people learn to fly with fixed gear, and then later go on
to retractable (though as far as I know there is not that much
difference there besides remembering to lower the gear).

In any event, I do not have the guts to buy a plane right now; I am
notoriously cheap (which makes me a REAL genius for taking up flying).



They're crap for training, and so are Cherokees, which handle in a very
similar fashion.
The reason is that the habits formed in the first few hours are those that
remain with the pilot for life. It's difficult to undo those habits once
formed.


Bertie