Lots of rain and wind here today, that began a day or so ago, I drove the team bus to an away game in another county, got to cross the Illinois river on the Ferry, in the dark rainy weather, I actually love this stuff.
Helps that Dan and I were able to fly his Cessna up to Canton on Saturday here in beautiful Central Obamastan and fly the lovely little 1946 Ercoupe, not sure what Dan thought about it, though I did give him a little scare with an impromptu "wing over", he wanted to know what my bank angle was?? prolly just 80 to 90 degrees, it flys very well for a 65 horse classic?? though this one is likely making around 90 horses, the ailerons are quite energetic, and that fat little high lift wing are fun, even with Fred Wickes little safety plane, this one does have rudder pedals, so it flys much better than the ones with aileron/rudder interconnect.
I must confess by butt is not quite calibrated to the Ercoupe, as the ball spent a lot of time outside the turn coordinators center, right rudder feel messed up by a single "SMALL" brake pedal right below the rudder pedal, that made smooth rudder deflection a real challenge. The landings and take-offs where smooth, especially once I decided to keep the nose gear off the ground by judicious aft stick on roll out as I shot touch and goes.
Dan is a great brother, and did honestly describe my last landing of the evening in his Horton STOL equipped Cessna as absolute "perfection", kinda nice to have my flying mojo back up to speed, as some may recall I botched a difficult crosswind landing this past spring, as I just had a moment where I wasn't even in the game, just an embarrassed passenger as a big gust took over, but I did recover and made a nasty looking floppy landing??? took a while to get my "stuff" back together. LOL
..you guys must be livin' right or sumpthin'!