Love your Ercoupe James. Thanks for not playing crappy music on the video :-)

Great video 👍🏼. Greetings from Sweden... Cheers!

@JamesGood

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Sweden! :)

Everyone needs to do Oshkosh at least once. It’s crazy. If it flies you’ll see it there

Great watching your video of the first leg of your adventure..can't wait to see more !!!

Great views from this flight, thanks for sharing. Gorgeous ercoupe, I would die for one just like it!

Always enjoy your videos because the scenery is fantastic! I've driven I-80 through Nevada and it's definitely more interesting from the air, great job! Looking forward to Part 2!

Happy to see you made the trip. I really enjoyed my trips in the Tri-Champ. Nothing can compare to it.

wow... a plane that drives like a car... sensational video.

Thank you for no crappy music.

This (nearly) brings me back to my flying days in the 1970s, in the UK. Zero digital data and minimal instruments (actually we didn't even have or need a radio then) This is fabulous seat-of-the-pants flying. Good of your wife to hack it over ground. This whole Oshkosh adventure is going to be great to watch. Thanks too for the plain, simple editing with no frills and especially no intrusive music. Excellent stuff.

@JamesGood

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment, glad you are enjoying it! And yes, my wife is pretty cool. :)

Enjoy this .. looking forward to the next stint..

Beautiful Ercoupe!

WOW! So glad the Coupe is making her way back to Oshkosh. Not quite retracing the track from 2002 but close and I'm enjoying reliving the trip my dad and I made seventeen years ago. Hope N94805 wins first place again!

@JamesGood

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for finding me on here, James. Would love to have met your dad. And to meet you. Maybe we can swap stories some time. I would also love to see some of your pictures; I have become friends with another previous owner, who had 805 in the 70's, and he's sent a bunch of pictures that I can share with you.

Great flight, every valley pilot must do this trip!

That was an epic journey with on this plane. Im 54 from South Africa & can't I have ever seen one live. I love its lines :) "SAXSY". I can't fly, I logged 175 sky dives. I helped a friend build a composite Quickie. Unfortunately I moved before it was completed. I love planes

Very well done videos. Beautiful scenery, good commentary and nice airplane.

@JamesGood

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Larry! I hope to go again this year, if the stars align...

@larryolson3554

4 жыл бұрын

I sure hope so. I'm sure I saw your Ercoupe last year, but didn't take a picture.

Always love the Ercoupe videos, throw in a trip to Oshkosh and it's got to be a winner... You and the wife should trade off co-pilot duty for the boy on different legs of the journey. :) Oh well, maybe in the next video.

Cool video!! You should stay the night in Lovelock next time. Lovelock has amazing history! Tech companies are eyeing Lovelock for development, they already have a Tesla charging station. :)

Hope to make this same trip next year to Oshkosh. N94157 Thanks enjoying your adventure

I love the way these old birds look. :) I would be so tempted to make little fake gun turrets that could be stuck on just for fun now and then, or even for giggles while it sits in the hanger. lol Beautiful classic lines that will never go out of style.

James, when you were flying over the mountains, were you following valleys/passes with a highway below you most of the time? Or were you going rogue over the wild? Looking forward to your next installment. Oh! I love that you do not overproduce your video with a bunch of music. Just pure flying! Cheers!

@JamesGood

5 жыл бұрын

I mainly followed the valleys and passes. I thought about turning off on a short-cut at one point, but... those mountains and the winds are pretty intimidating. What would happen if you did go down in them?! Thanks for the comment!

New subscriber!!

James, we’d love to see a wrap-up video where you talk about the stats for the trip like total miles flown, fuel used, mechanical and other expenses and your overall experience. Also anything you’ll do different next time!

@JamesGood

4 жыл бұрын

Hello BP. I will do one! Trying to get finished up with the Hood River series at the moment. Will revisit OSH some time after that.

Yeah, feel sorry for your wife and son, as I have also driven that Nevada stretch way too many times... it gets boring very quickly. :-) But from the air, it seems much more fun. But everything is more fun from the air...

@JamesGood

5 жыл бұрын

She's a very good sport, and a supportive wife. She even likes flying with me, I am super lucky!

Just watched part 1, great video. In 2007 I was working at the power plant in Beowawe, Nv. and on my day off, I drove to Elko and got a ride in Sentimental Journey, one of the B 17's that travel the country like Aluminum Overcast. Also, if you don't mind, what camera are you using when filming from the cockpit and is the wing camera using the adhesive mount. Thanks, Bob

@JamesGood

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Bob. I use a GoPro Hero 3's (they are a few years old now) both inside, and on the wing. The wing mount is a suction cup designed for sports car racing.

@Graham_Wideman

4 жыл бұрын

@@JamesGood Just a suction cup? That's impressive! Sports car application doesn't have to contend with altitude reducing the atmospheric pressure that the "suction" is relative to!

Terrific. Thanks James. Looking to purchase an Ercoupe for LSA flying.

@Trvlrxxx

5 жыл бұрын

Hey George. My Ercoupe is a 1946 415-c LSA. I love it. I have the C85 Stroker engine, which means it has pretty much all of the guts of an 0-200. Pretty sweet engine. If you haven't already done so, join us on the "Ercoupe Owners and Enthusiasts" Facebook page. Cheers!

@JamesGood

5 жыл бұрын

I think there's plenty out there. Just be wary of the ones that have been sitting for a long time, even in a hangar. Lots of recent flying is good!

Wow! What a wonderful video! The only thing that keeps from learning to fly is the airport traffic control people speak TOO FAST! I can't understand what they're saying! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@JamesGood

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! You have a flight sim? Check out pilot edge, if so. It really helped me get over my (severe) radio fright. I’m still not great at it, but getting better, I think.

Ha, if you really like Oshkosh, move here, plenty of vacant lamb, for me, a hours drive, and since we live this close, want us to drive rather than fly in. Nor very crowded in 2020, something about covid.

How well does the ercoupe handle crosswinds?

@JamesGood

5 жыл бұрын

Very well. Land it crabbed into wind, and as soon as the mains touch down, the forward momentum pulls the aircraft straight, and you're heading straight down the runway. Once the nose wheel is down, the wing has a negative incidence, and you won't be flying any more. It's a good setup.

@kenthompson3730

4 жыл бұрын

Shortly after I got my Ercoupe, with no rudder pedals, I landed at an airport with 20 knot direct crosswinds. I held it in a crab all the way down. Touched down with the mains still crabbed. It automatically swung the nose to pointing right down the runway. As soon as the nose touches down, it cannot fly again because the wings are set at a negative angle of attack. It’s genius engineering. Taking off, once you get your rotation speed you have to positively pull back on the yoke or it will stay on the ground no matter how fast you’re going. If you take off in a crosswind, it will automatically turn into the wind upon rotation and you just climb out crabbed.

How noisy is it without a headset on ?

@JamesGood

4 жыл бұрын

It's noisy, but not unbearably so. Probably not great for prolonged periods. I believe many people used to fly without headsets when these aircraft were first produced.

@JamesGood

4 жыл бұрын

BTW, I do wear a headset (maybe you thought I didn't). It's an in-ear, passive noise canceling set called a 'Clarity Aloft'.

@Repuestosgigante

4 жыл бұрын

James Good ..what would you compare the noise level to James ?

@JamesGood

4 жыл бұрын

With my headset, it's not too noisy. Probably like being in a car on a freeway. I don't fly without, only brief taxi's, so not really sure how it is without the headset.

@Repuestosgigante

4 жыл бұрын

James Good cool thanks

Would love to know how you talked your wife into chasing you from CA to WI in the car! That would be a short conversation with mine!

@JamesGood

5 жыл бұрын

:) I know, I'm very lucky.

It's a shame your wife won't let your son fly with you. How much crosswind can the Ercoupe handle on take offs / landings?. I'm used to flying out of Yellowstone Regional where the wind can really make things interesting.

@JamesGood

4 жыл бұрын

I fly with Charles quite a bit! Not taking him on this trip was my choice based on weight of the aircraft, and also my comfort/experience level flying out of my local area.

@JamesGood

4 жыл бұрын

The pamphlet that comes with the Ercoupe says 25mph max crosswind.

Loved the video, but please show the whole takeoff instead of jumping around like you did. Also, like others have said, thanks for not feeling the need to add a bunch of bad music!!

@JamesGood

5 жыл бұрын

I re-watched this, and I agree, I didn't do a very good job on that segment with the take-off at LOL. Must have deleted a clip by mistake. I wish KZread would let you upload new versions...