3) Anyone out there flown the Cessna 162?
Welcome.
Wanted to get back to your other question, also.
A guy at the field had one. I say, "had one," because he moved up to a Comanche, recently. One afternoon he was looking for a safety pilot and I wanted to go for a spin in the 162 anyway, so I volunteered and we spent a good couple of hours punching holes in the sky.
The plane is rather unfinished, IMO. It has all the required parts and a little attention was paid to how it looked but it doesn't make me want to buy one.
I hated the spork, stoke, or stork, or whatever they call that blasted thing that takes the place of a real stick. The slightest movement begets a lot of aircraft movement and has you correcting too much, too close to the ground, for my taste.
The owner said there had been a lot of door latch failures and cessna had to replace doors. Never saw one fail but it does seem floppy.
The Rotax is a zippy little engine, No complaints there. It's loud but that could be because the windshield is so thin, as much as the engine noise. No problem getting off the ground and we were two large American men.
Hope that helps a little.
