From: jimmyg51147 <james-galvin@sbcglobal.net>
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, August 8, 2010 8:50:12 AM
Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Is everyone here to bash Skycatchers?
Michael:
I think you need to explain what sort of thinking went into the decision to buy a Skycrapper. I feel it is nothing but a shrunk-ed up 150 that is not only underpowered but has a ridiculous useful load. The design of this plane is at least 70 years behind the new modern Light Sport planes such as the Arion Lightning and Piper's LSA. I don't care where the plane is made Arion is made in Australia and the Piper was from the Czech Republic. There are also high wing designs like the Paradise from Brazil and all are better than Cessna's product. Cessna's executives ignored Light Sport for so long that by the time they came out of their coma the company was late getting into the market and they had to cobble together a piece of crap from an ancient design they had sitting on the shelf. When they found out it didn't have proper spin recovery fixing it put them even farther behind the curve.
It is not that I would not buy one it is that why would anyone buy one. Please enlighten us.
Jimmy
> Maybe I'm off base, but it seems to me that ALL of you are here primarily to bash Cessna and Skycatchers! I just galloped through 6 months of messages, and could not find one positive comment.
> I joined this list because I actually have a 162 on order; anybody else?
> Michael
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