Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

Piper Tri Pacer or Colt, $15,000 and 6 Gallons Per Hour. Worth as much or more when you sell it as when you buy it.

Piper Twin Commanche ~ $50,000 and 12 to 14 GPH. You can find partnerships on Comanches and the remaining Apaches out there.

No one wants to do it that way any more. They'd rather sit in a box bolted to the floor with a CRJ'ish cockpit and pay $5,000 for a week of playing Flight Sim X with some other similarly inclined individual under the supervision of a bored out of his mind flight instructor who endues the box in the hope a real multi engine student will show up.

Wonder what one of these kids would do if instead of the particleboard procedures trainer you took them out of an hour of time in a Citabria, gave them a few spins followed by some stops at grass strips and some light acro? Much more educational than sitting there reading "3 down and green, flaps 40, landing check complete."