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Re: Pilot avoids collision with Venus
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2012 May 5, 17:41 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2012 May 5, 17:41 -0700
I flew a Long-eze with the Aspen panel and it is very
slick. Glass is great except that it is expensive and doesn't make the
plane go any faster or farther or carry a greater load. The Cessna
Skycatcher costs more than $150,000 and about one-third of the cost is
the glass panel. The plane carries two people and cruises at about 100
knots. In 1974 I bought a Cessna 150 for $4,400 and it also carried two
people and cruised at about 100 knots. $4,400 1974 dollars adjusted for
inflation comes to $19,800, which is more than $130,000 less than the
Skycatcher. You can also buy that 1974 Cessna 150 for about $20,000
today so instead of buying that Skycatcher you can buy a used Cessna 150
with steam gauges and use the left over $130,000 to buy a house. You can argue the relative benefits of the glass versus steam gauges and most of those steam gauges cost a lot of money and have moving parts that go bad and have to be replaced eventually so I can see your point about replacing the attitude indicator and directional gyro with the Aspen unit but a compass? cheap, and they last forever. gl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_162 --- On Sat, 5/5/12, Thomas Sult <tsult@mac.com> wrote:
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