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

13 fuel sumps just so the lawyers can't prove that you checked them all for water? Really? The checklist only shows the normal wing tank and fuel strainer. Are you saying there are MORE of these sumps? Where?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/903694/Cessna-172-SP-Checklist

 

And the seats don't bend so you can reach things in the back seat? My 1968 172i seats don't bend either, do the seaats in your older 172 bend?  wierd...

 

The fuel injected engines refuse to start when warm? Funny, the 3 172SP's at EAFB flying club all seem to start and run OK when warm, so do all the other fuel injected engines that I see fueling up next to me at the fuel pumps.

 

And the useful load on the SP is still around 850 pounds, same as my 1968 172i. How much does your 172 carry?

 

I know that you are selling other airplanes, but it just seems little disengenuous to pick nits on everyone else's airplanes.

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Helen Woods

To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 7:25 AM

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

 

The 13 fuel sumps for one so the lawyers can't possibly prove that the
pilot checked all of them for water. The fuel injected engine that
refuses to start when hot to prevent law suits from pilots who don't
know how to identify and resolve carburetor ice. The giant super heavy
seats that won't bend so you can reach anything in the back that you
might need in flight but presumably prevent wiplash lawsuits for
another. I could go on. They've added so much lawyer proofing on their
current 172 that its so heavy as to be a two person bird.

Helen

Rick Pitcher wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Helen Woods
> To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 5:32 AM
> Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Skycatcher news
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>> You know, one thing that no one has talked about that is going to be
>> really interesting is what type of service Cessna is going to provide to
>> owners looking for LOAs. Since the restart of the Cessna production
>> line in the 90s, Cessna has been hyper concerned about liability, often
>> to the design detriment of their aircraft. A quick comparison of a
>> C172SP against any P or earlier model of C172 illustrates what I mean.
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> I> can easily see them refusing to offer any sort of LOAs or modification
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>> support to owners.
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> That's an odd sounding statement, what does it mean?
> What kind of design detriments did they make for liability purposes?
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