Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Standard category LSA

Joe,

Your pre-planning is smart.  Be careful of your medical and be sure to get a good pre-medical exam before you go in for your next FAA medical.  If you flunk the FAA medical and get a denial, you cannot fly as a Sport Pilot until that's cleared by a new FAA medical issuance.

We have a lot of Coupe owners who've come to Coupes for joyful flying after decades of heavier metal.  Coupes do manage to be a joy to fly while still having some utility for cross country - I flew mine from the my home in the Central States to the Atlantic, Pacific, Canadian border, the Gulf a lot of places in between.

The Ercoupe models 415-C and 415-CD qualify as LSA aircraft, suitable to be flown by pilots exercising the privileges of Sport Pilot, acting as pilot-in-command.

If you go shopping, beware of this:  the C and CD models can be legally up-converted to be a D (and occasionally a later model) and can be legally re-converted back to being a C or CD.  However, once up-converted, they will never qualify as an eligible LSA, ever, ever again.  We can give useful advice on this and lots more.

I administer the Ercoupe online forums.  Our ercoupe-tech forum has about 750 members and the ercoupe-flyin forum has close to 450 members.  Please come join us and we'll be happy to help with all your questions - in detail.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ercoupe-tech/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ercoupe-flyin/

I'd also suggest you browse the various articles on my Coupe webpage (link below) and the Ercoupe Owners Club website, http://ercoupe.org

All the best,

Ed

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Ed Burkhead
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