midwestpa24
Final Approach
If you want to drive a stripped down, no ac, crappy seat, light as possible aircraft... Fine.. have at it...
If I want to sacrifice weight for comfort.. I should be able to.. and due to gov regs.. it is illegal to do so...
The paradigm is so rigid right now, the responses are largely "in the box" thinking...
If there was no box, what would be possible... I know enough to say , I don't know... And that is the point... Encourage innovation and you get just that...
Discourage innovation and you have a Cessna 172/182/.. Piper blah blah, Mooney... Same **** 50 years later.. it was like when I went to East Germany in 1990... Time stood still
What you have missed over the years are innovative planes that had all the bells and whistles, but had no load carrying capacity, burned twice as much gas, went slower, and cost twice as much. Those aircraft didn't survive the market. The FAA and their regs don't supercede physics and supply and demand. But you don't want to hear that, you want a TBM for the cost of a 172. Good luck with that.