Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Skycatcher news

Unfortunately for most of you on the list, the "average 170lb person"
would have to be female. Adult menfolk don't tend to average any where
in that ballpark from what I've seen. 200-230 is more like it for the
mature male pilots I see at our school.

Helen

Jim Bair wrote:
> Realistically, airplanes are built for the average person.
> Technically, one might refer to the statistically 95% person, or
> something like that. I'm sure it's annoying to be larger than
> average, but do you honestly expect someone to build a light aircraft
> around the specs of larger than average individuals? If that was the
> case, the Robinson R-44 would have two seats and be called the R-22
> and the existing R-22 would be scrapped. Personally, I like it that I
> have the option of buying an aircraft designed around a 170 pound
> person. If we designed seating in the airlines around large people,
> the entire cabin would be business class seats and tickets would
> double in price because we could fit half the number of people. That
> would be a popular move for the average person.
>
> Jim
>
> Quoting Richard Williams <rkwill@lewiscounty.com>:
>
>
>> All,
>>
>> I tried to get into the demo model.
>> It was not nearly big enough.
>> When I put one leg in first, then the other leg, the result was
>> I was hanging out the door and the top of the door was below my arm pit.
>> There was no way to get all of me into the cabin.
>> I might have put my rear into the door instead,
>> Then used the Sky crapper accordingly, but I felt there were too
>> many people around for my sense of privacy.
>>
>> R. Williams
>>
>> ---------- Original Message -----------
>> From: "jimmyg51147" <james-galvin@sbcglobal.net>
>> To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
>> Sent: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:24:39 -0000
>> Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Skycatcher news
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Rick:
>>> Actually it is a Skycrapper. Cessna had a blank sheet of paper.
>>> They could have designed anything. Instaed they came up with an
>>> underpowered, overweight, shrunked up 150. And although it may seem
>>> derogatory to call it a "Skycraper" it is a much more acurate
>>> description.
>>> Jimmy
>>>
>>> --- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Pitcher"
>>> <lightflyer@...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Gary, that's the Cessna Sky*Catcher*.
>>>> You keep calling it something else, I don't know if you're trying
>>>>
>>> to be funny, cute, or what.... but it's not a skyscraper.
>>>
>>>> Knowingly using the wrong name is being derogatory... let's not
>>>>
>>> do that on purpose.
>>>
>>>> Otherwise people will start talking about your Rot-Axe engines
>>>>
>>> and Euro-fux. ;)
>>>
>>>> Rick
>>>> Avid Flyer builder (predecessor to the Euro-Fux)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>> ------- End of Original Message -------
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