Well, fortunately, my exerience with my new 172 over the last
20 months of ownership has been much more positive. Only two
squawks, really. After only one month, the transponder failed
and was down for three weeks as I waited for Honeywell to get
me a new one.

What could possibly take 3 weeks to get a transponder?

Unless there was more to it than just a bad unit, we're talking about a five
minute replacement job.

Or do the new Cessnas come with some weird, unusual transponder that no one
else stocks?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
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