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What It Takes (And Costs) To Fly Your Own Plane
An interesting read...
https://jalopnik.com/what-it-takes-a...ane-1840237528 Most informative part is the comment section with opinions by plane owners and whether it's worth the trouble when considering the cost of maintenance, licensing etc... * |
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What It Takes (And Costs) To Fly Your Own Plane
Miloch wrote in
: An interesting read... https://jalopnik.com/what-it-takes-a...own-plane-1840 237528 Most informative part is the comment section with opinions by plane owners and whether it's worth the trouble when considering the cost of maintenance, licensing etc... A hole in the sky you pour money into. As much as I enjoyed my flying days there are limits to owing a plane. Take off, fly around the patch for awhile, land. After a while that isn't enough to justify the costs. |
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What It Takes (And Costs) To Fly Your Own Plane
Miloch wrote in
: An interesting read... https://jalopnik.com/what-it-takes-a...ane-1840237528 Most informative part is the comment section with opinions by plane owners and whether it's worth the trouble when considering the cost of maintenance, licensing etc... Consider this: Got a quarter-million bucks? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cognzTud3Wg Ten reasons NOT to become an airline pilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY-98PjzNlA Take it from someone who's been the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8hCIolZRTU Before long the airlines will be outsourcing their supply of pilots just like their maintenance facilities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTPW4wDfz8o Pic: I can just see Mbongo Bujumbura from Uganda trying this at FL370. Eventually we'll have planes falling out of sky right and left... |
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What It Takes (And Costs) To Fly Your Own Plane
"Byker" wrote in
: Miloch wrote in : An interesting read... https://jalopnik.com/what-it-takes-a...-own-plane-184 0237528 Most informative part is the comment section with opinions by plane owners and whether it's worth the trouble when considering the cost of maintenance, licensing etc... Consider this: Got a quarter-million bucks? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cognzTud3Wg Ten reasons NOT to become an airline pilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY-98PjzNlA Take it from someone who's been the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8hCIolZRTU Before long the airlines will be outsourcing their supply of pilots just like their maintenance facilities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTPW4wDfz8o Airline pilots have the worst job security on the planet. Fail one physical and your career is over. Your airline folds, get a job flying for a short haul operation in Botwana or the Seychelles or Suriname. Paid by the hour, no benefits. Meanwhile you have 2 kids in college and a wife with Parkinsons. Not for me.............. |
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What It Takes (And Costs) To Fly Your Own Plane
"Mitchell Holman" wrote in message
. .. Miloch wrote in : An interesting read... https://jalopnik.com/what-it-takes-a...ane-1840237528 Most informative part is the comment section with opinions by plane owners and whether it's worth the trouble when considering the cost of maintenance, licensing etc... A hole in the sky you pour money into. As much as I enjoyed my flying days there are limits to owing a plane. Take off, fly around the patch for awhile, land. After a while that isn't enough to justify the costs. I wonder what his mama had to give the pilot in exchange for the plane rides: https://www.theroot.com/born-to-fly-...ldr-1839638355 |
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