Wow, might want to tell Cessna that, they make some really nice airplanes, take a look, check out the prop planes, single engine , man don't those look a lot like the ones made say, 40 years ago. Cost is a bit higher now, but still great airplanes. Go out and take a ride, take the controls and see how you fare.
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May I respectfully disagree with your post - at least in part.
Yes, I agree - the CESSNA company makes some pretty neat airplanes.
But I am not clear on your suggesting I try and tell that company anything....the CESSNA AIRCRAFT COMPANY would probably not be at all interested in anything I have to say!
Wife and I did own at one time a Turbo 210 "Centurion" ( a 200 mph turbo-charged gasoline-powered hi-performance aircraft - would love to buy a new one - but they havn't made now for some 40 years.
For some years now, that company's primary sales activity has been in long-range hi performance luxury jets - the cheapest of which, as I noted earlier, is at least several million dollars. No, you & I cant just "take the controls".
My understanding is that in addition to a pilot's license, you would need a "type-rating" for that product line.
Can you pay cash ? I I would be surprised if any insurance company would cover you until you had many hours of additional "time-in-type" in ADDITION to a "type-rating", and of course you couldn't buy the thing thru a finance company ithout insurance.
I don't think you need a separate "type-rating" to buy and get insurance/financing, etc. on their Caravan ( jet powered propeller line) - but I rather doubt if anyone would do that without the training the factory provides - consider this - you screw up a "hot start" on a turbine motor, and you've just blown the better part of a half million dollars for that alone.
I understand they, on "special order - substantial cash deposit up front, please) will still make you one of their gasoline-powered prop. planes - I read someplace that a 182 or 206 would be up around half a million - unless you had the cash, again...you'd have to deal with a finance company, so again...insurance..."approved" training, etc....before you are going to be sitting at the controls.
My recommendation is that we forget about CESSNA issues for this particular "thread"; not clear that any of this is relevant to the issues raised by others here.
May I respectfully suggest my previous "BOTTOM LINE" recommendation is appropriate here ?
Specifically, let's help each other learn more by responding to the subject-matter of a particular "thread". I also suggest it would be most helpful to the learning experience this site offers if we confine our contribution in any particular "thread" to an area in which we are technically competent.