Anyone (other than the Casa
) shed any light as to why CASA
are mandating that Check & Training be put in place for the new Cessna Mustang? Well under the 5700 kg level, this aircraft was designed and built by Cessna to be one of the easiest, single pilot aircraft ever built to fly (and it is)! The requirement for 4 proficiency checks per year for each C&T man, each of a 3 hour duration, plus check rides with CASA
, has virtually excluded the Mustang from Charter operations through prohibitive costs. All at the direction of the ""CB Policy Maker
". The CASA
foi's, well at least one of them, is pleading with the industry "not to shoot the messenger". For a small Charter operation the C&T manual replicates that required for large RPT operations. Completely unrealistic and totally impractical.
Observations, anyone?
Before, that is, the aircraft is returned to Cessna as being economicaly unviable in Oz.