"john smith" wrote in message
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In article leobi.15208$NV3.6049@pd7urf2no,
"Marc CYBW" wrote:

I am a fractional owner of a pair of very nice Skylanes at Springbank
airport in Calgary (CYBW) and fly here and there, mostly just around
Alberta
but occasionally on vacation - usually over the mountains to the wet
coast -(i.e. Vancouver island) - about 50 hrs /yr. Great operation.
Great
service. Almost always a plane available. Planning on Oshkosh next year.

The Skylanes are about 7 old and the operation wants to upgrade to
SR20's.
Double the investment, substantial increase in monthly and hourly costs.
Plus I'll have to train to upgrade to glass panels (8 hrs). Currently
have
210 hrs. VFR OTT. Most of night rating. No intention of getting IFR
rating.

No other fractional operation around so it's SR20 or back to the beaters
(182 or Arrow) at the flying club.

Recommendations anyone?

Why would anyone want to downgrade from a C182 to a Cirrus SR20?
Run the numbers for useful load, endurance, maintenance and insurance
costs.

Good heavens, there is someone even *more* opinionated than me. :-)

I was only going to suggest that how you actually use the airplane would
determine whether a change from C182 to SR20 would be an upgrade or a
downgrade. This is like comparing a Chevy Tahoe to a new Cadillac DTS; or a
Range Rover to a Jaguar XJ.

Peter