Do you own a plane and what kind?
02-19-2021, 09:41 AM
#251
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Joined APC: Feb 2018
Posts: 377
Originally Posted by notEnuf
Charlie and the team are doing the crowd sourcing and all of their articles and webinars have been enlightening. GA flying is the heart of aviation. Soon military flying will be drone driven and pilots will only be able to learn and fly the old fashion way.
02-19-2021, 12:29 PM
#252
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Joined APC: Jul 2018
Posts: 1,091
Originally Posted by beernutt
You guys are crazy. I used up 8 of my 9 lives flying night freight in piston twins. Barons, 402s and Navajos. Ain’t no way I’d get anywhere near a piston twin now, much less a piston single, unless I had nowhere to go and all day to get there and everything I was going to fly over was flat with no trees, preferably paved.
It was a lot of fun when I was 22, though.
It was a lot of fun when I was 22, though.
02-21-2021, 07:38 AM
#253
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Joined APC: Sep 2010
Posts: 159
I dropped off APC a year ago when the mood on here got a little too dark for me, and am just now lurking again and its encouraging to see threads like this popping back up. I'll admit I haven't read all the posts leading up to this, but my $.02 is to make sure you honestly define your mission before buying an airplane. I own a J-3 Cub and have owned it for the last 8 years. Money has always been a major issue, so my compromise was to make sure I owned an airplane that was going to allow me to fly the most for the least amount of operating costs. Sometimes it can be difficult to justify using GA for transportation, especially if you have a large family, icing/equipment issues etc. Instead of trying to justify a useful tool, just look at it as purely a fun toy like a motorcycle, and look into something that will give you and your family and friends the joy of sightseeing, or cruising around for a nearby meal. For my money, I don't think there is a higher fun per dollar ratio right now than a Luscombe or Taylorcraft.
