On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:41:26 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

Hatunen writes:

It's quite possible that one could have one's own private jet and
fly it with a private license.

Yes, but the fact remains that hardly anyone does this. John Travolta does it.
Arnold Palmer does it, too. Harrison Ford can do it, but I'm not sure if he
actually owns a jet. Lorenzo Lamas simply has a CPL, though (and I don't know
if he owns a jet, either).

I'm not sure how you think that's "hardly anyone". Of course,
"hardly anyone" owns big iron, but there are a lot of smaller
business jets in private hands. And, with a properly endorese
private certificate one could rent a jet.

Private pilots are a tiny elite to begin with. The ones who are also certified
to fly jets and have their own jets to fly are so rare that they're scarcely
on the radar, QED.

But they tend to be pretty big blips on that radar screen. I hold
a private certificate, myself, but don't consider myself a part
of a tiny elite. Of course, I'm not current in any aircraft at
all and I doubt I could pass the medical, so the certificate is
just and interesting item in my scrap book.

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