Any Cessna 210 owners?

the cessna pilots assn. ( cessna.org) is the worlds largest "type"group
with about 12,700 paid members and very deep files on all things cessna
and a very active forum. membership is 45$/year.

the cessna pilots society is a FREE forum (cessna-pilots.com) with far
fewer but equally expert and experienced people on the forum.

if i were really looking at spending the kind of money a 210 will cost
i'd be joining cpa immediately but you can get a lot of helpful
discussion at the c.p.s.

dan

"houstondan" wrote:

if i were really looking at spending the kind of money a 210 will cost
i'd be joining cpa immediately


That thought crossed my mind as well. For 45 bucks Matt can get a lot of
good information, and trivial in comparison to the other costs of buying an
airplane, e.g. pre-buy inspections, travel cost to look at candidate
airplanes, title searches, etc.

Mike

mike,

the more i think about it the more i'm persuaded that simply being
allowed to monitor the c.p.a. forum is more than worth the cost without
all the tons of technical data they have. they even have tech staff at
c.p.a. who work full time and answer members questions.

some of the regular posters are the people who teach and publish on the
subject. i could start naming names but i'd scew it up. very, very
impressive group. as a new owner, it's the best avaition money i've
spent. matter of fact, there are a lot of people there who don't even
have cessnas today. maybe they did before or whatever but they hang
around for the quality of the exchanges.
dan


Mike Adams wrote:
"houstondan" wrote:

if i were really looking at spending the kind of money a 210 will cost
i'd be joining cpa immediately


That thought crossed my mind as well. For 45 bucks Matt can get a lot of
good information, and trivial in comparison to the other costs of buying an
airplane, e.g. pre-buy inspections, travel cost to look at candidate
airplanes, title searches, etc.

Mike

Guy in the hangar next to me had a strutted 210 for about 5 years. Cost
him a fortune. What an absolute turd. He finally couldn't take it
anymore and bought a turbo Aztec. We all laughed and said he'd be the
first guy to buy a twin and have his costs go down. We weren't far off.
He sunk at least $12K into the gear in those few short years. They
are not very fast. It's a 150-155 knot real world airplane. And if
it's not fast why would you want one?

Matt Whiting wrote:

Does anyone here own an older model C210 (strut-wing models)? I'm
looking at a 1966 and would like to learn more about the real world
costs of operation as compared to the 182 I owned previously. I know
the insurance is a lot higher ($3800 vs. $1200), and fuel burn is
higher, but what about maintenance costs? Other than the gear saddle,
what are the other trouble spots? How much trouble is the gear saddle
in actuality?


Matt