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New Cessna Model 162 Skycatcher
Cessna-162 Airplane
with Garmin-300 ‘Glass Cockpit’
now available
Collision Avoidance / Air-Traffic Information, GPS Navigation, Satellite Weather, Synthetic Vision, and the USA Airports Data Base are available with this plane.>>
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The Club’s Cessna-162 Skycatcher is a side-by-side two-seat, high-wing, strut-braced, tricycle gear Light Sport Aircraft (LSA), designed for flight training and personal use.
It is powered by a Continental O-200D engine with 100 H.P., can carry 2 people and up to 50 lbs. luggage.
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Performance
- Maximum speed: 118 knots (218 km/h (136 mph))
- Cruise speed: 112 knots (207 km/h (129 mph))
- Range: 470 nm (870 km (540 sm)) at 6,000 ft (1830 m)
- Service ceiling: 15,500 ft (4727 m)
- Rate of climb: 890 ft/min (4.52 m/s)
- Wing loading: 11.0 lb/ft² (55.0 kg/m²)
- Power/mass: 13.2 lb/hp (8.04 kg/kW)
- Checkout
For those who already know how to pilot an airplane, simple Transition Training is available.
Garmin newly designed the G300 avionics for this aircraft. It offers features similar to those available from the G1000 computers used in Cessna-172 planes, plus some more (such as a Weight and Balance display, a Safe Altitude profile screen, Satellite Weather pictures). Yet the G300 displays are more user-friendly than the G1000.
- Sport Pilots who fly in this plane may use a valid U.S. driver's license as evidence of medical eligibility.
Contact the Club if you would like to fly it yourself!
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All our 4-Seat aircraft
feature the newer
Garmin-G1000 'Glass
Cockpit' panels
Moving Maps show nearby Air Traffic data, Terrain Proximity, and, can display near real-time Weather Information.>>
- 'Synthetic Vision' technology can display, right on the flight instrument panel, an “outside view” of land contours, large water features, towers and obstacles within 1000 ft., air traffic symbols, runways; airport signs appear approximately 17 miles from the airport -- even during low visibility, darkness and Instrument Flying conditions, making it easier and safer to fly under such conditions.
- All 4-seat Club planes come with Dual GPS Navigators with "Wide Area Augmentation System" (WAAS) that improves the integrity and accuracy of basic GPS signals.
GPS Accuracy was increased by a factor 10, compared with the now older 'non-WAAS' G1000 aircraft, as were commonly built before 2008.
Over 5000 airports in the US now offer so-called L/VNAV & LPV approaches with a ‘WAAS’ Glide Path (Vertical Navigation), with 'Decision Heights' as low as 200 feet, that are only available for aircraft with WAAS.
In the SF Bay Area only Stanford Flying Club offers GPS navigation systems with WAAS on all 4-seat Club planes.
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On-board Databases
offer extra
safety information
during flight
The Obstacle Database depicts locations of towers, tall buildings, and other vertical obstructions in the cockpit >>
- Geography and Terrain databases are regularly uploaded onto the aircraft computers, providing updates for display of the topography of the earth. Online updates are made available every 56 days.
- Flight Charts database, can show on-screen versions of charts depicting procedures for Arrivals, Departure, Approaches and Airport Diagrams in the US.
Revisions update: every 28 days
- Safe Taxi data base pictures contain airport diagrams.
These diagrams will show runways with numbers, taxiways with identifying letters / numbers, landmarks, control towers, and buildings on and around airports.
Updates: every 56 days
- ‘NavData’ databases are used, that we obtain from Jeppesen Company (which is owned by Boeing Aircraft Company). These data provide on screen depiction of airways, navigation aids, airspace, airports, current airport and air traffic radio frequencies, and more. Updates: every 28 days
- XM Satellite Weather Services allow the Pilot to see near real time weather information at a glance, as well as to zoom in on specific locations.
Weather features provided for making informed navigational decisions include: Radar 'Nexrad' Precipitation Maps, Lightning Locations, Freezing Levels, 'Winds Aloft', Surface Weather maps, Cloud Tops Maps, Textual Reports ('Metars', ''Airmets & Sigmets'), Area Forecasts and more. Updates: ongoing via XM Satellite.
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Free Garmin Cessna
Aircraft Simulator
for Members in Training
Using a Cessna Panel Aircraft Simulator can help reduce flight time need to pass an FAA Flight Test >>
- Please contact the Club or your Instructor, if you would like more and the most current information about Cessna "Glass Cockpit" / G1000 Transition Training, Training Materials, and/or using the Garmin G1000 Simulator for C-172S or Cessna-400 aircraft training.
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