On 2008-03-02, Shirl wrote:
If I missed it, sorry for the repeat, but ... what did you think of the
CT after flying it? There's one in a hangar around the corner from mine.
I LOVE the look of it and hope to fly it one day when the guy has time.
He says it outperforms the Skycatcher (I think it's around the same
price ... over $100K). He said the new one has 13" more in the fuselage
and has a different-shaped baggage door that will allow you to get
bigger items in and out with ease. This guy is a distributor, so of
course he has nothing but praise for it, but I'm curious to know what
you thought of it. If you'd consider having one, I'm guessing you
must've liked it.

A friend who's evaluated a LOT of the LSAs out there, and flown a nontrivial
number, tells me the CT has a very abrupt stall, and if you encounter that
on landing and drop the aircraft in from a few feet off the ground, the gear
has a nasty tendency to break off - at which point Bad Things happen.

I don't know that personally, and the CT wasn't on my list of candidate
aircraft anyway...

From what I've seen, though, *anything* outperforms the Skycatcher. The
aircraft is a hog, with only 425 pounds useful load - more than 100 less
than just about any other LSA. The main reason they have the number of
orders they do is that, apparently, every Cessna aircraft dealer was forced
to order 10 of them, and Cessna Pilot Centers were forced to order one. At
that rate, it's not hard to run up 400 orders.
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