Re: Piper announces new trainers
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 5:19 pm
Why does everything here have to be an argument? Forget I even mentioned that I learned to fly in a Champion 7FC. Yes, it was too heavy to be an LSA and yes it had a nose wheel.
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Everything here isn’t.TimTaylor wrote:Why does everything here have to be an argument?
How does whats been said here qualify as an argument?TimTaylor wrote:Why does everything here have to be an argument? Forget I even mentioned that I learned to fly in a Champion 7FC. Yes, it was too heavy to be an LSA and yes it had a nose wheel.
This wasn't the same CEO who scuttled the PiperSport deal 8 years ago, but with that attitude, he certainly seems to be his predecessor's ideological twin.jetcat3 wrote:That comment made me so mad. With his attitude towards the LSA market,
Haha amen. It’s uncalled for, especially with what the LSA market has done to help the Part 23 world through STC.This wasn't the same CEO who scuttled the PiperSport deal 8 years ago, but with that attitude, he certainly seems to be his predecessor's ideological twin.
Make that “LSA+Experimental market.”jetcat3 wrote:. . . . with what the LSA market has done to help the Part 23 world through STC.
That withstanding, UND went with Piper Archer and G1000. Their multi engine training is with Seminoles and G1000.WDD wrote:And I just read where ATP flight school just bought...... 100 Cessna Skyhawks. Nope, not the 2 (or 3 seat for IFR) Piper.
In a way it makes sense. A 4 place plane has more flexibility than a 2 place plane as it has probably more weight capacity, is larger and doesn't get pushed around as much in wind, etc. Sort of learning to drive using your Mom's minivan. They are easy to fly. When the time comes that they put them into the resale market a 4 place might be more easy to dispose of, esp if it such a popular model as the Skyhawk.
Which is probably why the Cessna 150 - a great plane - isn't the plane of choice for flight schools; it's the 172. So many used Skyhawks have been bought by flight schools in the past 2 years the prices have soared (no pun intended).