Texas Aircraft Introduces Entry Level Colt - AVweb

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Earlier this year, Texas Aircraft updated its Colt LSA with a comprehensive Garmin avionics suite, and now it’s going the other way, with a simpler, less expensive Garmin setup for VFR flight. Priced at $139,900, the latest Colt configuration has a single-screen Garmin G3X Touch display, external com radio and remotely mounted ADS-B-compliant transponder. Texas Aircraft says it is responding to flight-school requests for a more affordable primary trainer.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/texas-aircraft-introduces-entry-level-colt
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I guess this is the modern version of the C152 that everyone’s been looking for?

This all makes sense to me except the toe-breaks on the right side; if this is for training, wouldn’t you want the CFI to have brakes??

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“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler”. Albert Einstein certainly must have had a hand in the design of that panel. Nice. Neat. Uncluttered. Right sized. Simple but no simpler than necessary.

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Hand brake.

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As a point of reference, my 1979 Tomahawk (125 hp STC) provides 100 kts IAS on 6.7 gph of 100LL. Comfortable; unrivaled visibility.
Although it’s four times as expensive as the Traumahawk (purchase price), you get a brand new bird for your bucks. While I haven’t flown it, to me, this Colt looks like a real winner!

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Ah. My Comanche only has a hand brake, but I’d not seen that on a modern plane.

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$140k is a nice price-point. No cylinder-temp monitoring. Note this is not an IFR airplane.

Anybody have experience with it?

Anybody tried to use a touch-screen display in rough air?

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$139,900 seems like quite a deal in this day and age.

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