Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Pilot records

It's my understanding the C162 is already night legal. I don't think it
has enough useful load to support the equipment, let alone the fuel
reserves, required for IFR.

I doubt if you'll find the CPCs not teaching sport. Maybe you heard
that from one near you but remember these places are franchised and as
such each run independently. On top of that, flight schools that didn't
know how to serve the needs of their customers did not make it through
the past two years.

Helen

On 4/10/2011 11:34 PM, Gary Orpe wrote:
> My issue is the number of CFI's/student, and yet they seem NOT to support
> the upcoming C-162 for anyone into Sport, even though most CPC's are buying
> one. I see here that the Cessna Pilot Centers are all getting one but have
> the intention of training to Rec or mostly Private only. I speculate how
> long it will take for Cessna to get IFR and night certified in that 162
> exclusively to teach private. There were several startup dealers offering
> sport planes and trikes, etc., but most all have gone belly up last year due
> to lack of interest in our toys.
>
> Why do you suppose that is? Apparently Helen is not having any problems on
> the east coast. [way to go Helen]
>
> Gary Orpe
>
> ->-----Original Message-----
> ->From: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> ->[mailto:Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bob Comperini
> ->Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 3:28 PM
> ->To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> ->Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Pilot records
> ->
> ->
> ->What number are you looking at? Student pilot certificates
> ->issues I suppose. While that might give you an indication of
> ->the number of primary students, it won't give you any
> ->information on advanced training, or training provided that
> ->would not show up in this data. Also, there is no way to ever
> ->know how many of the instructor are even active. I personally
> ->know several people who keep their CFi rating current, but
> ->haven't taught one minute in several years
> ->
> ->--
> ->Bob Comperini
> ->
> ->
> ->On Apr 10, 2011, at 10:12 AM, "Richard Williams"
> -><rkwill@lewiscounty.com> wrote:
> ->
> ->>
> ->>
> ->> Gary,
> ->>
> ->> I find it interesting the disparity between the number of
> ->flight instructors and
> ->> the number of flight students.
> ->> I would expect the number of students to greatly outnumber
> ->the number of
> ->> instructors.
> ->> Instead, I find it the other way around.
> ->>
> ->> R. Williams
> ->>
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