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Old 25th Apr 2014, 06:16
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A and C
 
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Fragile !

The sport cruiser has been the subject of much comment on these pages, the biggest problem is the build quality, in short it has been built down to a weight and so is fragile.

In the hands of an careful individual I have no doubt the aircraft would be OK but it won't survive long in a group or training environment.

Being responsible for the maintenance of a number of sport cruisers all have had the nose leg replaced, some have shown defects in the main gear.

It is overall robustness that is the issue with the aircraft, the sport cruisers are after less than 500 hours starting to show the sort of defects that we are finding on 13,000 hour Cessna's during the SID's checks.

For any other role apart from as an aircraft for an experienced individual owner I would steer well clear.
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