Flying the London Ercoupe from London City with special permission to land at Heathrow, in Xplane11

Mods:

*Extended Night Lights  textures Europe

*Modified night lights

*London City Scenery

*Modified Default scenery to remove duplicate London Landmarks using the downloadable overlay editor at Xplane11.org

Other than the video title card and background music, the flight itself is unretouched...

John

 

I've flown an Ercoupe in real life. Huge amount of fun with the canopy open and wind in your hair. The carpet was worn out for force of habit looking for rudder pedals that weren't there!

Edited September 4, 20196 yr by DavidP

2 hours ago, DavidP said:

I've flown an Ercoupe in real life. Huge amount of fun with the canopy open and wind in your hair. The carpet was worn out for force of habit looking for rudder pedals that weren't there!

I flew the same way in an Ercoupe over north Texas, crossing into Oklahoma, and back--the wind in my hair was nice, the engine was in good shape, but it could not climb well and aircraft which cannot climb well are a bit dangerous.  I could fly one today, I am lighter, and there is an STC available for Light Sport to bring the gross weight up to 1320#, but it is really a one and a half passenger aircraft, and the forward fuel tank is a huge danger in a crash, since the occupants would get covered by hot fuel and ignited.  So many small aircraft reek of gas fumes, and such fumes cause cancer in so many pilots, because of exposure to benzene. 

I have been in just two, Dope and Fabric aircraft, which did not have this problem.  One was a Rans S6ES that was in wonderful shape, but the owner wanted me to buy it and get it certified after he promised he would do it, because that is a red flag with people wanting to sell you something with a hidden problem.  In his case, as did another aircraft owner who tried to hustle me his so called safe Zodiac homebuilt, a shady character in Florida, the Vooldemort of all aircraft "CFI's" I have met.  First he did not have a real fuel gauge in his aircraft, just a tube gauge so if the fuel went down below halfway, you had a choice--trust your sense of timing and that there were no leaks at a lower point in his fuel tank, or get down with only a short range, half of his claimed range.  Never trust an aircraft owner that says "Trust Me", if someone says that it means they already suspect your survival instinct is telling you not to trust them. 

Plus, both the Rans S6 ES and Zodiac did not have a slipper clutch for their Rotax 912 engines, a must because once on the ground, or at idle, the vibration can damage the engine mounts, it sounds and feels like you have a flat tire or an aircraft emergency, and Rotax engines without one are short lived.

I have learned not to say "Trust Me" in real life to anyone, and if someone asks me to say it, they are a manipulator, and they are worst than enablers in my opinion.

There should be no "buyer beware" sellers in the selling of any two ton weapon, which is what vehicles are, same is true for any vehicle, or someone who sells you a snake oil health cure to an ailment.  That can also be applied to a small handful of sim products, thankfully--if an add-on vendor has a track record of not patching bugs, saying be thankful with what ya got, that they need buyers to finance completion of their development, stay away.

Gladly I feel Xplane11, Aerofly FS2, P3DV4.5 are the elite when it comes to customer service, followed by numerous payware vendors not to mention the freeware author of this Ercoupe in my video, my free London add-on scenery, and free night lighting textures and upgrades.

John

Edited September 4, 20196 yr by John_Cillis