RIP Cessna...Skycatcher

On Nov 28, 12:16 pm, Newps wrote:
Yeah, the Remos. That's hillarious. We had a Remos and company demo
pilot stop by here a couple months ago and stayed for a few days giving
demo rides. Quite possibly the dumbest pilot ever. This guy couldn't
fly and talk on the radio at the same time. A real asset to the company.

wrote:
On Nov 28, 11:56 am, wrote:

Can all those fools who put down deposits at Oshkosh get their money
refunded?

Hmm, responding to my own post... (scratches head).

If I was one of those fools, I'd seriously now be looking at this
instead:

http://www.remos.com/en/news.php?item=092707

Yeah, but what about the plane itself?

Salesmen/demo pilots are a dime a dozen and easily replaced.

The FlightDesign CT is also a contender, and if my memory serves me is
presently the sales leader in the market right now today. Just don't
land one too hard and plonk it down on the gear ;-)

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Yeah, but what about the plane itself?

Salesmen/demo pilots are a dime a dozen and easily replaced.

So are LSA manufacturers and that's why Cessna will sell a million of
them. You can quibble over the weight of the plane or where its
components are made but the fact is you know Cessna did their homework
and will kill the competition. Just like with their latest jet, the
Mustang.

Newps wrote:


wrote:


Yeah, but what about the plane itself?

Salesmen/demo pilots are a dime a dozen and easily replaced.

So are LSA manufacturers and that's why Cessna will sell a million of
them. You can quibble over the weight of the plane or where its
components are made but the fact is you know Cessna did their homework
and will kill the competition. Just like with their latest jet, the
Mustang.

Yeah, but so far all they seem to be good at is F.U.D

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:53:24 -0700, Newps wrote:



wrote:


Yeah, but what about the plane itself?

Salesmen/demo pilots are a dime a dozen and easily replaced.

So are LSA manufacturers and that's why Cessna will sell a million of
them. You can quibble over the weight of the plane or where its
components are made but the fact is you know Cessna did their homework

We can hope so, but remember all the quality control issues when they
first went back into the single engine prop plane business.

and will kill the competition. Just like with their latest jet, the
Mustang.
Roger (K8RI)

On Nov 28, 12:53 pm, Newps wrote:
wrote:
Yeah, but what about the plane itself?

Salesmen/demo pilots are a dime a dozen and easily replaced.

So are LSA manufacturers and that's why Cessna will sell a million of
them. You can quibble over the weight of the plane or where its
components are made but the fact is you know Cessna did their homework
and will kill the competition. Just like with their latest jet, the
Mustang.

Way back in the 80s there was a Word processing program called
Wordperfect. At that time it was the market-leading word processing
software. It was actually inferior to a number of other programs, but
it had really great technical support and lots of people used it
because they needed the support. The Skycatcher strikes me the same
way. It has some real liabilities compared to other LSAs on the
market, but it will have the Cessna network behind it and a lot of
people will probably buy it for that reason.

Eventually Wordperfect lost out in the market to superior products.
Time will tell if this happens to the Skycatcher. I think if Cessna
had really done their homework they would have designed a plane that
was a little more competitive.

Phil

"Phil" wrote in message
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Eventually Wordperfect lost out in the market to superior products.
Time will tell if this happens to the Skycatcher.

It was purchased and destroyed. Notice how much Microsoft Word looked like
old Wordperfect? Sorta like how Excel looked a lot like the early Windows
versions of Lotus 1-2-3. Buy 'em, make an "update" that turns to product
to total crap and then sell your conspicuously-identical version that
actually works.

Who would do a thing like that?

-c

On Nov 29, 10:02 am, "Gatt" wrote:
"Phil" wrote in message

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Eventually Wordperfect lost out in the market to superior products.
Time will tell if this happens to the Skycatcher.

It was purchased and destroyed. Notice how much Microsoft Word looked like
old Wordperfect? Sorta like how Excel looked a lot like the early Windows
versions of Lotus 1-2-3. Buy 'em, make an "update" that turns to product
to total crap and then sell your conspicuously-identical version that
actually works.

Who would do a thing like that?

-c

What I remember about Wordperfect was it had no menus. Everything was
based on keyboard commands. There were competing products with much
better user interfaces, but they didn't have the support that
Wordperfect had. Lots of people bought the inferior product because
of the support. I suspect that's what may happen with the Skycatcher.

Phil

Gatt writes:

It was purchased and destroyed.

Actually, the competition improved, but WordPerfect did not.

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Gatt writes:

It was purchased and destroyed.

Actually, the competition improved, but WordPerfect did not.


You're an idiot.


Bertie

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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It was purchased and destroyed.

Actually, the competition improved, but WordPerfect did not.

You're an idiot.

I was a contractor at Netscape when IE4.0 came out. Basically, it looked
just like somebody stole the internal alpha copy of Netscape Communicator.

(After Internet Exploder's release party in San Francisco, they dropped a
giant blue paper-mache-and-chickenwire "e" on the front lawn of Netscape.
Which would add trespassing and littering to theft, except that by noon the
7' Netscape lizard, "Mozilla" was standing on the yard among the smashed
remains of the Microsoft "e".)

In Netscape's case, the competition didn't "improve." They stole
proprietary code and used massive personnel resources to get it to market
before the smaller company. I wouldn't expect people in Europe to
understand how that sort of thing happened in terms of web browsers, word
processors, spreadsheets and other "Microsoft products" that bear striking
resemblances to former competitors.

-c