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Originally Posted by SteamWake
About all its good for really damn thing is so slow  |
which is a good thing considering it was purpose built for training and as a student you need to build flight time.
with the Cessna 150 you only have to go about 60 miles out and back to get a good hour and a half of flight time on a cross country.
With a Warrior or a Cessna 172 you would have to fly about 100 miles out and back for the same amount of flight time.
put this 150 up against a cross country with 4 or 5 stops with 2 touch and goes at each... takeoff at 7:30am you could EASILY meet all of your solo cross country flight time requirements before lunch time the same day covering half the distance of another student in a faster airplane.
every airplane has to be purpose built, and the Cessna 150 was built with the flight school operation in mind.
The Cessna 150:
1. Has an hourly fuel cost of about $19
2. it is
half the insurance cost of a 172
3. They have an extremely low acquisition price ($17-$25K)
4. They are very easy to maintain
5. Parts availability is excellent
6. they are always in demand so resale value holds very well
7. It takes up very little hangar space, so you could cram 8 or 10 of them in a single fairly medium sized hangar.
the list goes on and on