Skycatcher IFR?

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:16:52 -0800, C J Campbell
wrote:

On 2007-10-16 07:46:25 -0700, xyzzy said:

On Oct 12, 7:30 pm, Matt Whiting wrote:
Does anyone know if the Skycatcher will be IFR certified? It doesn't
appear to be from what little I've found at the Cessna web site.

Matt

You've gotten a lot of good replies here so it may be redundant, but I
did want to mention I saw the Skycatcher at OshKosh and asked one of
the Cessna salesdrones if it would be IFR capable and he said no.

Putting the technical and regulatory limitations aside, I doubt Cessna
would want to cannibalize 172 sales by offering a much cheaper IFR
alternative.

Yeah, sure. Both the Skycatcher and the 172 have order backlogs running
into several years now. Somehow I doubt that Cessna is worried about
sales.

I could walk into my local STAR and pick up a 172 or 182 tomorrow.
Maybe the factory has a production backlog for a long time out, but
from what I can tell it's likely because they're shoving completed
positions out onto the dealers where the aircraft sit in inventory
waiting for an end user.