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How expensive is expensive?

by diziet 16y ago

spitfire 16y ago
a cessna 172 burns 8gallons of 100octane fuel an hour. add min $60K for an airplane, depreciation, insurance, etc. Unless you go the homebuilt/experimental route. In which case you can fly something like a quickie q2 ($20-30K) and burn ~4gallons/hr of autogas. Oh also, the zenair zodiac 601 recently had a problem with its wings folding up in flight. Check that they've been corrected before you take a trip in one. Personally the sport pilot license bores me to death. Can't fly into busy airspace, can't fly more than 120mph or so, vfr only, single passenger, essentially overgrown ultralights.
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- jodrellblank 16y ago
  Can't fly into busy airspace, can't fly more than 120mph or so, vfr only, single passenger, essentially overgrown ultralights. I don't understand what any of those restrictions have to to with making flying boring. Flying is only fun when you can fly into busy airspace? Why?
  - ehnus 16y ago
    It's not just that you can't fly into busy airspace, it's that you can't fly into airspace where you need to talk to an air traffic controller for VFR flight (class B-D). If you live in or near a big city chances are that the airports out of which you will want to fly will be close to airspace into which you cannot fly. It a hassle if you have to drive out to the boonies in order to start your flying trip or if you have to take the long way around a large block of busy airspace.
rubyrescue 16y ago
i spent around 15K and i have about 150 hours, in cessna 172s, a bit of time in mooneys, some time in a piper or three, learned how to fly in mountains and was about 80% of the way toward an instrument rating. So, i spent about $100/hr on average but i had about $120/hr of fun :)
- raminf 16y ago
  Let's not forget the $100 hamburgers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_hamburger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_hamburger) :-)
  - jamesbkel 16y ago
    I was aware of the $100 hamburger, but from that article I found the link to 'Fantasy Flight'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_flight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_flight "Fantasy flights are charity flights operated by a host airline for locally disadvantaged and terminally ill children to fly to a fictitious destination." I'm still mulling this over, but my initial reaction is very mixed/slightly negative.

How expensive is expensive?

by diziet 16y ago

How expensive is expensive?

a cessna 172 burns 8gallons of 100octane fuel an hour. add min $60K for an airplane, depreciation, insurance, etc. Unless you go the homebuilt/experimental route. In which case you can fly something like a quickie q2 ($20-30K) and burn ~4gallons/hr of autogas. Oh also, the zenair zodiac 601 recently had a problem with its wings folding up in flight. Check that they've been corrected before you take a trip in one. Personally the sport pilot license bores me to death. Can't fly into busy airspace, can't fly more than 120mph or so, vfr only, single passenger, essentially overgrown ultralights.

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jodrellblank 16y ago
Can't fly into busy airspace, can't fly more than 120mph or so, vfr only, single passenger, essentially overgrown ultralights. I don't understand what any of those restrictions have to to with making flying boring. Flying is only fun when you can fly into busy airspace? Why?
- ehnus 16y ago
  It's not just that you can't fly into busy airspace, it's that you can't fly into airspace where you need to talk to an air traffic controller for VFR flight (class B-D). If you live in or near a big city chances are that the airports out of which you will want to fly will be close to airspace into which you cannot fly. It a hassle if you have to drive out to the boonies in order to start your flying trip or if you have to take the long way around a large block of busy airspace.

rubyrescue 16y ago

i spent around 15K and i have about 150 hours, in cessna 172s, a bit of time in mooneys, some time in a piper or three, learned how to fly in mountains and was about 80% of the way toward an instrument rating. So, i spent about $100/hr on average but i had about $120/hr of fun :)

raminf 16y ago
Let's not forget the $100 hamburgers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_hamburger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_hamburger) :-)
- jamesbkel 16y ago
  I was aware of the $100 hamburger, but from that article I found the link to 'Fantasy Flight'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_flight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_flight "Fantasy flights are charity flights operated by a host airline for locally disadvantaged and terminally ill children to fly to a fictitious destination." I'm still mulling this over, but my initial reaction is very mixed/slightly negative.