Carl and Chris

Flight instructing was mostly an avocation for me, but I took it seriously. It often led to some interesting flying like what happened in 2000 when Carl Ziegler bought an Alon A-2. If you haven't heard of it, the Alon is a derivative of the Ercoupe. Ercoupes were built by Engineering and Research Corporation (ERCO) starting in the 1930s. The A-2 is called the Aircoupe. Unlike ERCO, Alon put rudder pedals in their airplane and equipped it with a sliding canopy. They also used a more powerful motor and bucket seats.

A-2s are rare, only 245 were built. So are instructors who've flown one. When Ca...