You in fact may not!, and it is my opinion that a sport plane new or not
should not cost 80,000 . To make it the planes need to be kept simple and
cheap. If aviation refuses to have a reasonable price on a sport plane and
reasonable rental rates then they will simply be bankrupt. Not enough rich
doctors and lawyers to keep it afloat, and the regular guy won't be able to
afford a 80 G airplane.

Patrick
student SP
aircraft structural mech

"Cub Driver" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:56:13 -0400, "W P Dixon"
wrote:

Then you need to fly a Cub where I go at 57 an hour wet! But still 75
sure beats 100 to 130! Yep 57, it went up a few bucks because of fuel
prices
, but still is a great deal.

It is indeed a great deal. But note that if you divide the cost of the
Cub into the LSA mentioned, and multiply that times $57, you will
still be north of $100/hr.

I appreciate that all costs don't go up in relation to the purchase
price, but you can't pay for an $80,000 airplane by charging $60 an
hour, which I think was the renter's desired figure.




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