Into The Desert - Ercoupe & Stearman - Part 4 - Wild Horses

[@abelincoln95]

James!! Excellent post! Thank you for sharing the adventure...

[@newmexicosky6938]

Excellent video. Brought back memories of flying in Dad’s Ercoupe and watching cars below on the highway passing us. Not a speed demon, but lots of fun.

[@kevinphillips9408]

Great video of your continued flying adventures. Thank you

[@chriskiwi2601]

Fantastic scenery, great video. Thanks.

[@rogerpritchard]

Great video James. My father learnt to fly in an ercoupe at Biggin Hill. He later bought a de havilland chipmunk. Roger UK

[@JamesGood]

Thanks Roger. My Dad flew out of Biggin a bit as well.

[@LWJCarroll]

Very enjoyable series thanks. Ercoupes are so Cool! Laurie NZ.

[@neilbarriskell7840]

Totally enjoying this series

[@Compusailr]

As a former single engine ground pilot and now grounded with ALS I look forward every one of your videos using my eyes to navigate the computer. In 1985 I came very close to buying an Ercoupe similar to yours that was on Doc Watson's glider port in Vacaville. The price was $7500. I wonder if that one was your future bird.

[@JamesGood]

Lovely to hear that you enjoy them, thanks for letting me know!

[@ronaldgarnes8809]

Outstanding as usual. The scene from the left rudder camera with the clear sky’s & the 100 mile visibility can’t be beat. I’m interested in how you are going to set up the Cherokee to see if I can learn something. Thanks

[@JMOUC265]

Always a pleasure to watch your in-flight videos after loading your route into ForeFlight and following along. 👍👍 Even though the flight was almost 16 months ago, it is timeless. Didn’t realize that you were adjacent to the Bonneville Salt Flats! A quick question about your Ercoupe’s interior color. Based upon the control yoke hub’s purple color, do you think that the original interior had a lavender tint to the panels and carpet?

[@JamesGood]

I think all Ercoupe's left the factory with those purple yokes. I wish I knew how the interior was, I think it was possibly bear, maybe just wooden floorboards and that was it. No carpet or side lining. I think all that was after-market. What I would pay for pictures (and video!) of it on delivery day.

[@DWBurns]

That was impressive. Wow

[@pjsministry7316]

The addition of the highlights is great. Nice touch. Thanks James Billy N99601

[@onepropmind]

Great way to begin my Sunday! Thanks James

[@joewilliams4142]

Fun flight. I always love flying formation. Even loose. I like the location callouts. One of my favorite YT posters is the USAF C130 guys who also use the same callout for things. Like it ! Wish I’d known Andrew when I was at Beale and he was still there. Good guy. But then…would James be good pals with anyone that wasn’t ? No.

[@karga2tilki]

the new video marks are a great improvment..🙂

[@glennstubbs8232]

Mandatory adulting and crap weather have kept me out of the cockpit for almost a week. Thanks for he fix. 😅

[@coppi60]

What great fun!! The wild horses were. beautiful:) I look forward to the next footage.

[@JamesGood]

Thanks, George!

[@danielbierwirth2190]

My Father flew in and out of Wendover with the USAF in B29's, KC97's, and EC121's. He always said he was glad he was never stationed there because, in the 50s and 60s before the interstate, it was very isolated. The video was beautiful, thanks for all the air to air shots, and the wild horses were incredible.

[@JamesGood]

Wow, that's quite a selection of aircraft that he flew. Yes, I'm sure it was quite different before I-80. Thanks for posting that!

[@risingsun_]

Always love watching the coupe and stearman travel together!

[@JoeCoolPilot]

Thanks for sharing James. Really enjoyed the video. Like the animated text callouts for points of interest. Good pilotage and flight plan. Thanks again for sharing your aviation experiences. Look forward to the next episode. Fly safe!

[@JamesGood]

Cheers, Joe. Yeah, the little callouts were my "between-Christmas and New Year" project. Quite fun!

[@cincinnatusjeffery]

I agree. Great video, and I like the text call outs, as well. Some nice low and slow flying. It was cool seeing the wild horses! Not something yoy see every day!

[@joewilliams4142]

Wendover has quite a history. Read it on Wikipedia ! James you should try all those crosswinds WITHOUT rudder pedals !

[@dannier.kuepfer7455]

Oooooo this is a good one! I like the overview with the map at the beginning as well as script inserts to add interest through out. Mad editing skills, James.

[@JamesGood]

Thank you! I appreciate that, glad you liked.

[@themaverickproject4577]

WOW I really enjoyed this flight. Thank you.

[@johnmay2786]

Thanks for another enthralling episode James, from here in the UK it looks like you're flying over a different planet! Truly epic landscapes, the sheer scale of everything is stunning.

[@JamesGood]

Crazy, isn't it? I still have to pinch myself sometimes, that I actually live here.

[@mikehipperson]

James, you know that you're not supposed to frighten the horses!

[@JamesGood]

Hey, they surprised us!

[@ianolennon5845]

Cool flight James thanks for sharing. Do you have an 0-200 in the Ercoupe? I have an 0-200 in a 64 Citabria and on hot days long journeys the oil pressure tends to drop close to the yellow arc. I put high viscosity oil in it which helps. Mind you we don’t get many hot days in Ireland as you well know.

[@JamesGood]

Hey Iano. I do have an O-200 in the Ercoupe. I haven't really seen any low oil pressure issues with mine, it stays pretty constant, just to the left of top dead center on my gauge (about 45 psi I think). I run straight 50 weight oil (Aeroshell W100).

[@JamesGood]

And yes, my ambient temps are probably a bit higher than yours, on average! :)

[@garyhand4701]

Boy, James you sure could afford to land long on that long run way at wendover. It would be nice to add going to lunch to the video to break the video.

[@JamesGood]

Lunch? There was no lunch on that day! You'll see how starved we were in the next episode!

[@randybranson1009]

Crossing the ridge (21minute mark), was your ForeFlight screaming about the terrain?

[@michaelgill7248]

Two of my favorite planes flying together! I bet you had to pour yourself out of that tight Ercoupe cockpit.

[@ess64cee]

Living the dream James! Deepest Surrey in the rain, we need those sunny shots and wide vistas! Cheers, Steve👌 (PS The moustache, you left somewhere out there in the desert?🥸)

[@JamesGood]

Thanks Steve. No one knows where the moustache is, it's a complete mystery! We also have dreadfully rainy weather in California right now as well. I guess we need the rain, but, I still prefer the blue skies!

[@richardtardif231]

Hi James, in your Part 3 there is something, a comment, that I don’t fully understand. You said after refuelling that you had 100 HP in your Ercoupe. I thought it had a C85 engine. Did you changed it or overall it somehow? So possibly, you might have an ERCO 415-D that was modified to fit a 108 hp (81 kW) Lycoming O-235-C2C power plant?

[@JamesGood]

Hi Richard. My Ercoupe did come from the factory with a C-85. In 1999, it was fitted with an O-200 that was pulled out of a 150 with other problems. This O-200 conversion (mainly due to the lack of mechanical fuel pump on the O-200, which requires putting in an electric fuel pump) is done with supplemental type certificate paperwork.

[@kenthompson3730]

Does Andrew not have ADSB? Seems like it would be very helpful in finding each other out in the wilds.

[@JamesGood]

Hey Ken. No, and no transponder either. And the radio is not very long range. It could have all those things, but I think Andrew wants to keep it 'grass roots, wind in the wires'. He has enough modern avionics in the 737 he flies for United!