Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Cessna SkyCatcher completes ASTM complia...

> Posted by: "Abid Farooqui" apollonorthamerica@yahoo.com
>
> Hi Mike,
> Try $15 to 20k, not including autopilot linked to GPS
> Your engine has to be type certificated and since many of these a
re using Rotax 912ULS, they'd have to switch to 912S which is around
$6k more just for the paperwork because there isn't any other difference.
TSO'ed and IFR cert instrumentation, mode C or mode S transponder,
 nav/com and you pay for their liability that just increased as well.
>
> Take an example of Flight Design CT which isn't yet available with IFR
cert but will be after the ASTM standard for IFR is blessed completely and
I predict at least a $20k plus engagement for IFR on that plane. You should
take a look at the ASTM standard for IFR at some point. There is now also
a ASTM standard on how a design house should run thanks to our friends in
Europe because EASA wants it. Thankfully we in the US don't have to care
what they have to do there but its not me making up rules as we go along,
its the industry itself ... remember what I said ...
>shooting ourselves in the foot, we are getting there
> Abid


Thanks Abid.

Does anyone else have any other estimates for the difference between "night-ready",
and IFR-equipped?
(this relates to S-LSA)


Mike

PS: Abid, The "made up rules" were that it had to be "simple and cheap".

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