Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group So much for Cessna

No, it simply means that no one left at Cessna knows how to design a
piston single. Remember, their last two piston singles before the C162
flopped as well, and that was well before anyone had even thought of
sport pilot.

Helen

On 2/12/2014 7:38 PM, Richard Williams wrote:
> Fellow fliers,
>
> To me, this strongly suggests that Cessna fell for the
> mis-representations/exagerations that were pushed by the FnAA about sport pilot
> and LSA.
>
> My understanding is several other companies were forced to close their doors
> after falling for the grandiose prophesies of sport pilot/LSA .
>
> I must admit, the first time I was face to face with a skycatcher I knew it
> would be a failure.
>
> I does look like a plane, but it is so small that I could not get my body
> (caveat: I do weight 300 pounds) into the cockpit.
>
> R. Williams
>
>
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: "Bill Watson" <bill@sportpilot.info>
> To: <Sport_Pilot@yahoogroups.com>, <Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:48:39 -0800
> Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group So much for Cessna
>
>> from the EAA hotline:
>> Cessna quietly ends Skycatcher program
>> No official announcement has been made by Cessna Aircraft over the end
>> of its Skycatcher program, but the company has removed all evidence of
>> the aircraft from its website. According to AOPA, "The decision [to
>> stop selling the airplane] came in late January when dealers were
>> notified that the aircraft is no longer in the Cessna lineup." Cessna
>> had planned to build 700 Skycatchers per year, but fewer than 200
>> aircraft had actually been delivered since the program was launched in
>> 2007. Flying online (2/11), American City Business Journals/Wichita,
>> Kan./WBJ Biz Talk blog (2/11), AVweb (2/11)
> ------- End of Original Message -------
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