NW_Pilot's Trans-Atlantic Flight -- All the scary details...

Jay Honeck wrote
Personally, I think you'd have to be dumber than a box of rocks to pay
that much for a Baron -- hell, you can get a nice biz-jet for less --
but there were apparently 17 people in 2005 that possessed the unique
dual-qualities of "dumb enough to do it, and rich enough to afford
it"...

Yes....but, He has to get training and a check flight in that
biz-jet every year....to fly the Baron, just a Flight Review
in a Cessna 172 every two years. I've done Flight Reviews for
a couple of guys who traded in their biz-jets for high performance
twins just because of age, the jet training/check at Flight Safety
became more than they could handle.

Bob Moore

Personally, I think you'd have to be dumber than a box of rocks to pay
that much for a Baron -- hell, you can get a nice biz-jet for less --
but there were apparently 17 people in 2005 that possessed the unique
dual-qualities of "dumb enough to do it, and rich enough to afford
it"...

Yes....but, He has to get training and a check flight in that
biz-jet every year....to fly the Baron, just a Flight Review
in a Cessna 172 every two years. I've done Flight Reviews for
a couple of guys who traded in their biz-jets for high performance
twins just because of age, the jet training/check at Flight Safety
became more than they could handle.

Good point -- but my comment was more aimed at the price of a new Baron
than at the quality of the pilots. I mean, my God -- $1.7 MILLION for
a piston twin? Given what that would buy on the slightly-used
market, it's just insane to give Raytheon that much money...
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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www.AlexisParkInn.com
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On 4 Oct 2006 07:59:38 -0700, "Jay Honeck" wrote:

Personally, I think you'd have to be dumber than a box of rocks to pay
that much for a Baron -- hell, you can get a nice biz-jet for less --
but there were apparently 17 people in 2005 that possessed the unique
dual-qualities of "dumb enough to do it, and rich enough to afford
it"...

Yes....but, He has to get training and a check flight in that
biz-jet every year....to fly the Baron, just a Flight Review
in a Cessna 172 every two years. I've done Flight Reviews for
a couple of guys who traded in their biz-jets for high performance
twins just because of age, the jet training/check at Flight Safety
became more than they could handle.

Good point -- but my comment was more aimed at the price of a new Baron
than at the quality of the pilots. I mean, my God -- $1.7 MILLION for
a piston twin? Given what that would buy on the slightly-used
market, it's just insane to give Raytheon that much money...

I agree.

1.7 Mil could buy you a whole collection of cool aircraft:

P-51 Mustang
T-6 Texan
Cessna 195
Cessna 180/185
Pitts
J-3 or Champ

Bela P. Havasreti

Jay Honeck wrote:

Personally, I think you'd have to be dumber than a box of rocks to pay
that much for a Baron -- hell, you can get a nice biz-jet for less --
but there were apparently 17 people in 2005 that possessed the unique
dual-qualities of "dumb enough to do it, and rich enough to afford
it"...

Yes....but, He has to get training and a check flight in that
biz-jet every year....to fly the Baron, just a Flight Review
in a Cessna 172 every two years. I've done Flight Reviews for
a couple of guys who traded in their biz-jets for high performance
twins just because of age, the jet training/check at Flight Safety
became more than they could handle.


Good point -- but my comment was more aimed at the price of a new Baron
than at the quality of the pilots. I mean, my God -- $1.7 MILLION for
a piston twin? Given what that would buy on the slightly-used
market, it's just insane to give Raytheon that much money...

It's all relative. A lot of folks think that about any airplane
compared to a car. You can buy a ratty old airplane for $80,000 or a
brand new Lexus that is 10 times more comfortably and have money left
over for several nice vacations.

Matt

On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:24:39 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote in :

You can buy a ratty old airplane for $80,000 or a
brand new Lexus that is 10 times more comfortably and have money left
over for several nice vacations.

But, you're confined to two dimensions.

Larry Dighera wrote:

On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:24:39 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote in :


You can buy a ratty old airplane for $80,000 or a
brand new Lexus that is 10 times more comfortably and have money left
over for several nice vacations.


But, you're confined to two dimensions.

Ok, so you mentioned the other advantage people often mention!

Matt

Bob Moore writes:

Yes....but, He has to get training and a check flight in that
biz-jet every year....to fly the Baron, just a Flight Review
in a Cessna 172 every two years. I've done Flight Reviews for
a couple of guys who traded in their biz-jets for high performance
twins just because of age, the jet training/check at Flight Safety
became more than they could handle.

How did age interfere with it?

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