Thread: Skycatcher IFR?
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Old November 23rd 07, 03:39 AM posted to rec.aviation.owning
Scott[_5_]
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Default Skycatcher IFR?

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:44:53 -0700, in rec.aviation.owning, Newps
wrote:

C J Campbell wrote:
The Skycatcher is Cessna's Light Sport Aircraft. The FAA, in its
infinite wisdom, has decreed that new LSA cannot be certified for IFR.


And yet several ads for LSA aircraft state they are IFR certified.


Isn't it just LSA *pilots* that can't fly IFR? If so, that'd be no reason
to omit IFR hardware from the plane. You just need a private and instrument
ticket to fly it IFR.

-Scott