----- Original Message -----From: BillSent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 7:39 AMSubject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: SOL - Memorial dayHi Marc,
I have piloted the Cardinal and Skylane RG's. The =) was meant to tease AOPA for their
curious wording of a Cessna being a light aircraft. Given the target audience of AOPA
is not the same demographic as the New York Times, they should have felt comfortable
describing the Cessna as something other than a light aircraft. Perhaps they could
have specified the model or just left it described more simply as a Cessna. The phrase
light aircraft is too vague to give any real info, while also being too similar to LSA
allowing us to assume their imprecise reporting meant such.
I was quite surprised at the nearly immediate re-editing of the SOL article once they
were alerted to more info. I hope they double checked the info I pointed out, since I
could have been a crackpot caller misleading them with bogus info. Ironically the high
speed of their editing unsettles me just a little. Maybe I was the double check?
Bill
---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Marc" <averys_98550@comcast.net>
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:43:43 -0000
Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: SOL - Memorial day
> Actually Bill, there are several models of reciprocating retractable gear
> Cessnas. The C172RG also known as the Cutlass is the smallest one, followed by
> the C177RG Cardinal, then the C182RG Skylane, and the C210 Centurion. Cessna
> also has had a reputation of powerpack issues with the retract system in their
> singles.
>
> --- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Watson" <bill@...> wrote:
> >
> > If a Cessna Light Sport Aircraft landed on its belly, there were some welds
> > broken that used to hold down the gear.
> >
> >
> >
> > There are very few Private Pilots that can legally fly a Cessna (Very) Light
> > (Jet) Aircraft.
> >
> >
> >
> > Perhaps there is another kind of Cessna that a private pilot can fly where
> > the belly landings are more probable? =)
> >
>
> > Now to be fair, the AOPA staff was up well past their bedtime last night
> > preparing/finishing the new look of their ePilot website. They still had to
> > put in a full day today after working so long yesterday. Sometimes precision
> > suffers when the troops are rode too hard.
> >
> >
> >
> > Bill Watson
> >
> > bill@...
> >
>
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