Obsolete Aircraft

[sunny441]

Gotta love the Indian media! Here is a very interesting article that I came across today! A Cessna 172 is deemed to be obsolete!

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/flying-sc...3.html?from=tn

Do they want kids to get their PPLs and CPLs on a shiny 747?

[onetrack]

You realise that this IS a news media article you're talking about, don't you?
Newspapers and associated media rely on alarmist, inaccurate, and opinionated information, rarley backed by accurate facts, to sell their products.
Product sales volumes lead to salespeople of those organisations being able to sell more advertising revenue to clients, based on "exposure levels".
Pretty simple formula that only a few people reading the news articles understand.
Just wait until the journo in question finds that numerous current passenger aircraft have 60,000, 80,000, and 100,000 operating hours on their log.
The headlines will be in bold, 36 point print with added exclamation marks.
Anyone who actually pays for news produced by newspapers has to be amongst the biggest suckers in the world.

[Stallone]

yeah, if so, the F16 is also obsolete since it's been around since the 70s

[training wheels]

The other aircraft destroyed is a Cessna 172R model, phased out in the 1990s.

That's not correct. The C172 R model was introduced in 1996 and the first 'new generation' of Cessna 172 models after Cessna stopped their production in 1986.