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Old 3rd Nov 2009, 19:30
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An old flying instructor once told me that the reason he liked Cessnas and Pipers on a club fleet was that students and ppls allways seemed to manage to kick something in the aeroplane getting in and something else getting out. They also pushed and pulled in the wrong places and generally pulled things off wherever they could. In this old instructors view the modern breed of aeroplanes simply did not stand up to this constant abuse without breaking and becoming unserviceable, he believed that only the Cessna/Piper era aeroplanes stood up long enough for him to make a profit.
Now someone tell me the modern aircraft that can cope with the proclivities of flying club pilots!
Oh and is the 162 robust enough?
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