I have had our 150/150 for many years. It is a solid honest airplane and I
used it for 8.5 years to commute, about once/twice a month, from the L.A.
area to the Eureka area. With the tip tanks this was a non stop flight with
enough reserve for another hour. With the prop pitched for cruise, I was
able to throttle back to 2100 RPM and cruised at 110 mph. At this setting I
burned 6.5 Gals/hour. Now that I'm retired & the wife about too, this is
ideal for our trips, to visit the grand kids in San Diego. Whenever I do
need a bigger plane, it is no big deal to rent one, but 99% of my flying is
by myself. The 0320-e2d motor has been trouble free, just a nice set-up,
and easy on the pocket book. Just depends on what your needs are, so take
into consideration what you are going to be doing with the plane, family
size, distances, costs, ETC.
Clyde
PS: there is a Ad notice for repeated inspection of the nut plates on the
tail assy.

"houstondan" wrote in message
oups.com...
i really need to start this by saying i know absolutely nothing new or
bad about any aircraft. i'm sure not trying to start any rumors. in
fact, this may be something that y'all have already chewed on but...

the outfit i rent from is just down the taxiway from "air aces" at
houston-hooks where they've had a horrible time with wings coming off
airplanes lately.

in talking about that, one of the people at my base....not at "aces"...
told me they have been hearing about faa looking into a structural
problem with c-152 rudders. since they've got several and since i'm
almost certainly going to be buying one in the next few months we're
kinda curious about what might be going on.

anybody???


dan