NoseWheel LSA

[martymayes]

I did see an Ercoupe 415-no rudders. Any comments on a 415 as to performance, reliability, etc??

They fly like other low horsepower light airplanes, are in general easy to maintain, but have a few warts. Might want to check one on for size as the cockpit is pretty small and requires climbing in an out of vs. opening a door and stepping in from the gound.

[Dana]

I'm with Steve... why a nosedragger? Few classics have a nosewheel. Other than the Ercoupe, and some rare variants of the classic taildraggers (there were a very few nosewheel Aeroncas and Taylorcrafts, but most were converted back to taildragger). Another option might be some of the ultralight derived planes like Challenger, Quicksilver GT400 and 500, etc.

If you learn to fly a taildragger (it's really not that hard) you'll likely never go back to training wheels...