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Pilot error likely in first in-service Skycatcher crash
What appears to be the first in-service crash of a Cessna C162 Skycatcher - the company's new light sport entrant - will likely be ruled as pilot error. (www.flightglobal.com) Más...@MANBOI, you are an idiot. Cessna's are not built in china. Thats not even funny..
From Wikipedia:
Chinese production controversy
On 27 November 2007 Cessna announced that the Cessna 162 would be made in the People's Republic of China by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, which is a subsidiary of Aviation Industry Corporation of China, a Chinese government-owned consortium of aircraft manufacturers.[18] By manufacturing the aircraft in China, Cessna reported that it saved US$71,000 in production costs per aircraft produced. A second reason cited for moving production to Shenyang Aircraft Corporation was that Cessna at that time had no plant capacity available in the USA.[19]
The decision to produce the aircraft in China has been controversial and Cessna has received a high degree of negative feedback from Cessna 162 customers and potential customers.[20][21]
The first production Cessna 162 had its initial flight at Shenyang Aircraft in China on 17 September 2009. Customer deliveries started in December 2009
Chinese production controversy
On 27 November 2007 Cessna announced that the Cessna 162 would be made in the People's Republic of China by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, which is a subsidiary of Aviation Industry Corporation of China, a Chinese government-owned consortium of aircraft manufacturers.[18] By manufacturing the aircraft in China, Cessna reported that it saved US$71,000 in production costs per aircraft produced. A second reason cited for moving production to Shenyang Aircraft Corporation was that Cessna at that time had no plant capacity available in the USA.[19]
The decision to produce the aircraft in China has been controversial and Cessna has received a high degree of negative feedback from Cessna 162 customers and potential customers.[20][21]
The first production Cessna 162 had its initial flight at Shenyang Aircraft in China on 17 September 2009. Customer deliveries started in December 2009
doesn't really matter if it was made on the moon, when you take off in conditions like that Yeager would have had a hard time getting that 100hp off the ground.
The 162 is built in China and assembled in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_162
Incidentally, I too have done a takeoff downwind in a 162. This was inadvertent, and caught me off guard. I was up practicing landings at my local field (controlled) and the wind changed direction in a very short time. I had done about 5 landings and on my next time around the pattern I noticed that my crab angle on the base leg seemed wrong to maintain the right ground track. I proceeded on and noted that my ground speed seemed a bit high. Then I seemed to drift further down the runway than normal in the flare. It's a 6000 foot runway, so I wasn't concerned about running out of space, but the 'go' part of the touch-and-go took up a lot more room than I expected. On climb out I heard the tower say to someone (as if the mike was keyed unintentionally) "yeah I know, it just happened, I'm going to have to turn it all around". He then instructed me to maintain heading while he sorted everyone else out before issuing me instructions to turn around and cleared me for a touch-and-go in the opposite direction and announced a new weather observation was active. Anyway, I'm low-time, so it was all a new experience for me to be a part of and I enjoyed it.