Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!terak!doug From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: Homebuilts Message-ID: <850@terak.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 15:29:36 EST Article-I.D.: terak.850 Posted: Mon Nov 4 15:29:36 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 03:59:57 EST References: <3024@mhuxd.UUCP> <1172@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: Calcomp Display Products Division, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 35 > > A stripped 152 was really quite inexpensive; but essentially 100% of > > U.S. sales had the "152-II" dress-up and avionics option. > > last time I saw a price > tag for a C152 it was in the high 30s, close to $40k - and that was with only > the basics required for non-instrument instruction. That is the "152-II" configuration. A stripped 152 has no carpeting and no radios. I believe (no guarantees on this, folks) that it still has a full-gyro panel. It still has a full electrical system (28 volts) with starter and position lights, but (I think) no anti-collision light. Dual controls with right-side rudder pedals and toe brakes? I don't remember, but I think so. It never mattered much; who wants a daytime-only plane with no radios these days? Heck, you can't even legally ferry it from the factory without first lashing in an ELT. > new generation of Cubs, Funks, Aeroncas, Ercoups, Luscombes, etc. Again, I have to ask "who wants a daytime-only 2-place 90-mph plane with no radios"? I keep coming back to that because it is the crux of the matter. The current pilots are turning their backs on this type of flying. Every year there are fewer and fewer pilots who "just want to fly" even if they don't *go* anywhere. And there are more than enough old 2-place puddle-jumpers around to meet the needs of the few pilots that want them. We don't need, and can't use, a "new generation of Cubs..." unless we first (or at least, simultaneously) produce a new generation of pilots who *want* that kind of flying. -- Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {calcom1,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug