chanik Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 Almost brand new. Just $10K but needs a bit of touch up work... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2011-Cessna-162-Sky-Catcher-Light-Sport-Experimental-Garmin-G300-Continental-/160706815757?pt=Motors_Aircraft&hash=item256adf670d#v4-42 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastEddieB Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 Of course, we don't know what the reserve might be. I'd think that avionics stack alone would worth over $10k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chanik Posted December 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Plus the Rosen sun visors. Here is the post mortem. Didn't know the 162 was not allowed TO over 8,000ft DA. As an aside, what is the max DA for a CT? I think Bryce was 11,000ft DA at the last Page fly-in. Wasn't really a problem in the CT. http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20110803X40806&key=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Never take off with a tailwind, no matter how small. I went up with an old and wise FedEx pilot just before my checkride. That was exactly the advice he gave me as I took off with a 2 knot tailwind. This guy would still have an airplane if he would have done that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S3flyer Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Kurt, I scanned through the online SkyCatcher POH and found no restriction on takeoff elevation. Service Ceiling is ~14.5K. There is a table of takeoff distances that stops at 8K, though. I wonder if the NTSB interpreted this as a limitation? Or I could've missed something in my 10 minute search Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Meade Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Never take off with a tailwind, no matter how small. I went up with an old and wise FedEx pilot just before my checkride. That was exactly the advice he gave me as I took off with a 2 knot tailwind. This guy would still have an airplane if he would have done that. It's not a bad idea to see what the POH says about any operation. I've flown bigger airplanes that had tailwind landing limitations of up to 10 knots. Glider Flying Handbook specifically recommends that if forced to land on sloping terrain, to land uphill regardless of wind direction. My point is that there is nothing wrong with someone saying "I'll never do xxxx", but it doesn't hurt to check the POH and operating limitations to see if there are circumstances where something like a tailwind takeoff would be preferable. Like on some one-way mountain strips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastEddieB Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Like on some one-way mountain strips. This. For those of you who have watched the videos of departures and arrivals at my old base of Blue Ridge Skyport, you can see why blanket rules prescribing downwind takeoffs don't work. RWY 19 is great for takeoffs, since it has a marked downhill slope. That also means that taking off on RWY 1 means taking off into rising terrain - even the runway itself rises. For takeoff, the wind would have to be 15k or so from the north or so before I'd consider un uphill rising terrain takeoff. Similarly on landing I'd rather land with about a 15k tailwind and uphill than to try and flare as the runway is falling away - a weird feeling. Anyway, I think it's mainly flatlanders that tend to make blanket statements like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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