Now that jet ownership is so inexpensive...

From the article "Owning a Private Jet is Cheap" at
http://ezinearticles.com/?Owning-a-P...eap&id=1007987 :


"Owning your own jet may not be as unrealistic as you may have thought.
There are now thousands of business executives, athletes, and celebrities
flying their own personal jets every day. The idea of having this personal
mode of transportation is no longer for just the billionaires and world
leaders.

.....A small jet that could carry 4-8 passengers would usually cost between
$3 to $4 million dollars about a decade ago, but now it could be yours for
roughly $1 million."


DUDE! I had no idea that for a measily million dollars I wouldn't have to
stand in line at the airport! I wonder how much I could get for my jeep,
my boat, my house, my retirement, my kidney... ...no, I probably need that
to pass the physical to fly the jet... What has the entire American
middle class and the other 98% of the world been THINKING, man? Jets are
CHEAP!

"Next time you are on a crowded plane and looking down at your small cup of
soda and the ridiculously small portion of old pretzels, just remember you
could be flying in style in your own relatively affordable jet."


Here's an even more reasonable idea: Buy half a million dollars of pretzels
and soda and use the other half million for air travel. That way, you'll
always have pretzels and soda.

-c

On Mar 13, 8:29*pm, "gatt" wrote:
....A small jet that could carry 4-8 passengers would usually cost between
$3 to $4 million dollars about a decade ago, but now it could be yours for
roughly $1 million."

I looked up the latest number of millionaires in the US and found
9.2 millions of them. There are 1.16 millions household with networth
more than $5 million

http://tinyurl.com/2g6yge

For these households, a jet costing only one million is quite
affordable. Besides most likely many of them are business owners and
can easily write off most of the cost to business operating expenses.
Just ask Jay how it is done ;-)

One of my former flight instructors who was a retired college
professor but had nice consulting business bought a spanking new
Bonanza with all the gizmos for 0.64 millions two years ago. It was
before Bonanza lower the price to half a million or so.

I may be one of them jet owners someday when I finally break down
and spend a buck on a lottery ticket. Hey, you never know ;-)

Hai Longworth

On Mar 13, 5:29 pm, "gatt" wrote:
From the article "Owning a Private Jet is Cheap" athttp://ezinearticles.com/?Owning-a-Private-Jet-is-Cheap&id=1007987:

"Owning your own jet may not be as unrealistic as you may have thought.
There are now thousands of business executives, athletes, and celebrities
flying their own personal jets every day. The idea of having this personal
mode of transportation is no longer for just the billionaires and world
leaders.

The last thing anyone needs is everybody buying their own plane.
Where I live, the skies are 100% booked each weekend with private
planes flying above me. There is already no room and too much noise
from those already up there!

wrote in
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On Mar 13, 5:29 pm, "gatt" wrote:
From the article "Owning a Private Jet is Cheap"
athttp://ezinearticles.com/?Owning-a-Private-Jet-is-Cheap&id=1007987:

"Owning your own jet may not be as unrealistic as you may have
thought. There are now thousands of business executives, athletes,
and celebrities flying their own personal jets every day. The idea of
having this personal mode of transportation is no longer for just the
billionaires and world leaders.

The last thing anyone needs is everybody buying their own plane.
Where I live, the skies are 100% booked each weekend with private
planes flying above me.


100% booked?
Really?

I had no idea that was required.


There is already no room and too much noise
from those already up there!

Nah, you never heard a real airpane fly obviously. Can't have too much
airplane noise.


bertie

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The last thing anyone needs is everybody buying their own plane.
Where I live, the skies are 100% booked each weekend with private
planes flying above me. There is already no room and too much noise
from those already up there!

I wanna move there!!!!

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"Steve Foley" wrote:

wrote in message
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The last thing anyone needs is everybody buying their own plane.
Where I live, the skies are 100% booked each weekend with private
planes flying above me. There is already no room and too much noise
from those already up there!

I wanna move there!!!!

Sounds pretty good to me, too.

On Mar 13, 8:29*pm, "gatt" wrote:
From the article "Owning a Private Jet is Cheap" *athttp://ezinearticles..com/?Owning-a-Private-Jet-is-Cheap&id=1007987:

"Owning your own jet may not be as unrealistic as you may have thought.
There are now thousands of business executives, athletes, and celebrities
flying their own personal jets every day. The idea of having this personal
mode of transportation is no longer for just the billionaires and world
leaders.

....A small jet that could carry 4-8 passengers would usually cost between
$3 to $4 million dollars about a decade ago, but now it could be yours for
roughly $1 million."

DUDE! *I had no idea that for a measily million dollars I wouldn't have to
stand in line at the airport! * * I wonder how much I could get for my jeep,
my boat, my house, my retirement, my kidney... *...no, I probably need that
to pass the physical to fly the jet... * * * * What has the entire American
middle class and the other 98% of the world been THINKING, man? *Jets are
CHEAP!

"Next time you are on a crowded plane and looking down at your small cup of
soda and the ridiculously small portion of old pretzels, just remember you
could be flying in style in your own relatively affordable jet."

Here's an even more reasonable idea: *Buy half a million dollars of pretzels
and soda and use the other half million for air travel. *That way, you'll
always have pretzels and soda.

-c

I've seen used Leers going for less than some piston singles. Know
what you mean though.

Wil

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:40:09 -0700 (PDT), William Hung wrote:

I've seen used Leers going for less than some piston singles. Know
what you mean though.

Wil

Which begs the economic question when does the VLJ (lite versions coming
~ Eclipse ECJ) cross the expense analysis with a high end twin?
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I hesitate to add to this discussion because I'm not an instructor,
just a rather slow student who's not qualified to give advice that
might kill someone.

"WJRFlyBoy" wrote in message
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On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:40:09 -0700 (PDT), William Hung wrote:

I've seen used Leers going for less than some piston singles. Know
what you mean though.

Wil

Which begs the economic question when does the VLJ (lite versions coming
~ Eclipse ECJ) cross the expense analysis with a high end twin?

It already has crossed, at least in terms of the Eclipse - not no much so
for other models.

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:03:01 -0400, WJRFlyBoy wrote:

Which begs the economic question when does the VLJ (lite versions coming
~ Eclipse ECJ) cross the expense analysis with a high end twin?

Last time I looked, a Baron 58 would set you back $1.2 million... so there
ya go.
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Dallas