Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Skyscraper...

Hello i guess you will be doing extended cross country training of 400 nm a time say 3+ hours per lesson. More likely they will have it fueled for 1 hours or so if the stuent is well rounded. Peter --- On Wed, 9/16/09, Richard Williams <rkwill@lewiscounty.com> wrote: From: Richard Williams <rkwill@lewiscounty.com> Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Skyscraper... To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 12:16 PM   dcdoc, Yes, 490 pounds, of which fuel takes up a lot that leaves some 346 pounds for instructor and student. R. Williams ---------- Original Message ----------- From: dcdoc@aol.com To: Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com Sent: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:59:51 -0400 Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Skyscraper.. . >   > > Acc. to their website the useful load is 490 lbs. > http://www.cessna. com/single- engine/skycatche r/skycatcher- weights.html > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Williams <rkwill@lewiscounty. com> > To: Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com > Sent: Tue, Sep 15, 2009 4:37 pm > Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Skyscraper.. . > >   > > Gary O, > > Irregardless of what the PR  people say, the skycatcher is not going to be a great primary trainer. > With a useful load of only 346 pounds (pilot+student) there is no way for most adult Americans to be two-up in this plane. > > The load limit does not even accommodate the FAA standard weight for two persons of 350 pounds. > > A prime example, I'm 300 pounds, where are we going to find an instructor of less that 50 pounds? > > According to wiki, the latest design crashed, in a very similar manner to the first model, when control was lost during a spin test. > > The skycatcher is an expensive joke.  At over $110,000.00 it will only be useful for a pilot plus a young kid.  Humm... the EAA CAP program could use this plane. > > R. Williams > > > > ---------- Original Message ----------- > From: "Gary Orpe" <garyo@bak.rr. com> > To: "Sport Aircraft Group" <Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com> > Sent: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:33:54 -0700 > Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Skyscraper.. . > > >   > > > > Cessna SkyCatcher said to make "quantum leap" for pilot training. > > > > The founders of King Schools received the keys to Cessna's first > > production SkyCatcher LSA over the weekend. The newest and smallest member > > of the Cessna family will be used to prepare sport pilot and private pilot > > ground school courses. One blogger calls the light sport aircraft a > > "quantum leap" forward in technology, reliability and affordability for > > primary flight training. AviationWeek. com/Business Aviation Now (9/14) > > > > Right from AOPA's E Brief site. > > > > Gary Orpe > > > > > ------- End of Original Message ------- > > > ------- End of Original Message -------

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