Think carefully about your mission and why you want to own an airplane.

Couldn't agree more Richard and have been doing just that. I want to take
the time to research what fits with my long term flying goals. If that
means I rent for a few more years, so be it.

I decided on an older
Mooney M20C which cost no more than a C172 but let me build complex
airplane
time. A 1960s vintage Mooney M20C still remains an excellent value for
this purpose.

Interesting. I've only started to look at costs for complex Cessna
hardware, mainly because that's what I'm most familiar with. I definitely
want to consider options such as this, especially if cost can be in the
C-172 range.

--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL, IA Student

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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