RIP Cessna...Skycatcher

Gig 601XL Builder schrieb:
Darkwing wrote:
Building it in China, OH JOY! I would think this would be a negative.

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news..._196672-1.html

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I'd demand my deposit back.

why? just because it is made in China?

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James,

To decry the aircraft on the sole fact that it will be constructed in
China simply smacks of xenophobia.


Yup. Also, if the quality of US-built cars (or piston aircraft engines)
is any kind of measure, maybe one should be happy about Cessna's
decision.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

James Sleeman schrieb:

Come on people, usually I give pilots some accepted base line of
intelligence and reasoning,

You obviously don't read this group very often.

On 2007-11-28, Morgans wrote:
A lot to like, except......

the damn rotax.

What's wrong with the 4-stroke Rotaxes?
I've crossed the north Irish Sea numerous times behind a Rotax 914S,
a smooth and reliable engine.

I've also flown the Nangchang CJ6, which was built by the company that's
been contracted by Cessna. A very solidly built and good flying
aircraft.

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Jim Logajan wrote:

My theory:

By contrast, the designers of the Skycatcher almost certainly didn't
have "easy manufacturability" as their primary requirement.

You are probably dead on. That doesn't make it smart.

Jim Stewart wrote:

Have you ever flown behind a 912 or a
914? I have never had a nicer engine
in any vehicle I've owned. Smooth,
strong and light, 5 gallons an hour in
cruise, absolutely *no* issues to date.


If you want smooth you ought to fly behind a Jabiru or the poor man's
version the Corvair. 6 is better than 4 for smoothness.

Martin Hotze wrote:
Gig 601XL Builder schrieb:

I'd demand my deposit back.

why? just because it is made in China?


Yes and No. I doubt any one of those x00 people that paid the deposit at OSH
thought they were ordering an aircraft that was going to be built in China
by a third party. They were willing to pay a premium because they were
buying an airplane built by Cessna. They are not.

That said I might consider an aircraft contracted to an outside builder but
not if it was built in China. I'm forced to buy many things built in China
because either they are the only option or because of price. In this case
there are aircraft just as capable if not more so at a lower price either
built in the US or other countries where social and political beliefs are
not odds with my own.

Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
Jim Stewart wrote:

Have you ever flown behind a 912 or a
914? I have never had a nicer engine
in any vehicle I've owned. Smooth,
strong and light, 5 gallons an hour in
cruise, absolutely *no* issues to date.



If you want smooth you ought to fly behind a Jabiru or the poor man's
version the Corvair. 6 is better than 4 for smoothness.

I've heard good things about them and
it's simple physics that 6 would be
smoother than 4. OTOH, my plane wouldn't
be a Light Sport if it had that much
power. The 912 has to be derated by
reducing the prop pitch as it is.

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

writes:

Now here is a question I have. How come Cessna says that they can't
build the Skycatcher profitably in the USA and meet the price point
they set but yet AMD is able to build their ZODIAC in the states and
advertise an IFR variant for under 100k. It's not like the aircraft
are all that different. Both are made of aluminum and both have the
O-200. Cessna's logic just dosen't make much sense to me.

What Cessna probably means is that they cannot build the aircraft with
the profit margin they want in the U.S. To maximize profit they must
build abroad.



Wow you must have gone to bizness school or sumpin, eh?

Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote in
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"Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" The Sea Hawk at wow way d0t com writes:

Right. Like you would actually get in one if it was made in the U.S.
and someone offered to let you fly it for free.

A Chinese aircraft is likely to be even less safe than an American
aircraft.


Bull****.


How would you know, fukkkwit?

You know nothing whatsoever about aviation.


Bertie