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Old August 2nd 08, 12:00 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Martin Hotze[_2_]
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Jay Maynard schrieb:
On 2008-08-02, Martin Hotze wrote:
and boy, this is a cockpit from this century, not like most of the other
crap on the market.


Too bad it's aggressively VFR-only and,


.... and it is a LSA, so I'd have no problem with this.

as far as I could tell, completely
non-upgradeable - with a nonstandard instrument layout, *tiny* engine
gauges, one com radio, no nav radios, and a mode C transponder, and that's
it.


it is a LSA; weight matters. Out of the video: you can upgrade:
automatic wingfold, retrectable gear, parachute.

It suffers from a 2008 version of the 1940s tendency to try to make airplane
panels look like automobile dashboards. It didn't work then, and it doesn't
work now. Airplanes are not cars, and shouldn't try to act like them.


I don't care about the car-design, but I like the modern and european look.

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