Hr200
Been Instructing on them for the past 5 years.
Nice aeroplane and a good trainer at sea level and 15 deg c, however on hot days (+30c sea level )its short of power / performance at max auw and I operate on half tanks. Also different A/C seem to have noticeable performance differences.
The Lycoming 0235 as fitted by the French had a problem where a cylinder head separated from the block (see Uk AIB reports ) and I have seen it happen to UK based A/C. Additionally they seem to be very prone to starting problems and we continually have problems where the a/c fails to start when hot!!!!
Spares are now very hard to come by in the Uk and our aircraft are looking very tatty.
Its a pity re the problems as its great improvement on the C152
Cheers Orions***