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What would you buy with a 50k budget?
A fellow pilot/friend and I have been knocking around the idea of doing a 2-way partnership on an aircraft next summer. I have had my ticket since 1998 although I have only 150 some odd hours total. My friend has about half that. Relatively speaking we still consider ourselves newbie "students" but have this overwhelming desire to become the best pilots possible and that requires lots of practice. To that end we think that the best way is to have an aircraft that is ready on a moments notice for us. We live in northern Florida and what is particularly difficult for us as VFR only pilots is caused by the whims of the weather. If we rent, we don't have the flexibility to wake up one morning, see that it's not raining or threatening to and be able to make the decision then and there to go flying. That's a benefit we can't get from the flight school we normally rent from which in in our recent experience has been in the Archer III. So we are going to be looking for a plane that will fit a 50k budget. We know we can find a decent 150 or 152 for less than that, and have talked about a two seater being adequate for us to gain experience and build time. But we also have dreams of doing some cross country flying like from JAX to the Keys or we have even dicussed how awesome it would be to be able to fly to central Texas where we both have relatives to visit. For that, I am thinking a 4-seater would be best, and besides there might be some times when we want to go get that $100 burger with another friend or 2. I think we'd like to go for something not any older than say 30 or 32 years..circa 1976 - 1978 or newer. So we have begun our journey which will hopefully culminate next summer with us being able to say we are aircraft owners. But to the question as indicated in the subject line. What would you buy if all you had was 50k and what criteria would you apply to base that decision? I know there will be many opinions and that's fine. It will be interesting to see what we might be able to afford with that budget. Thanks Kirk Ellis PPL-ASEL |
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