"Richard Kaplan" wrote in message
s.com...
In my mind these are the reasons to buy an airplane:

(1) You fly so many trips that you frequently run into scheduling
conflicts
with your local rental airplanes

(2) You plan to fly IFR and cannot locate a rental airplane equipped with
the redundant equipment you prefer for those flights, i.e. backup vacuum
pump or electric AI

(3) You have concerns about the maintenance of the locally available
rental
airplanes

(4) You wish to fly an airplane type or class which is not practically
available for rental, i.e. a high performance complex airplane

(5) Pride of ownership -- this is fine on its own as a rationalization as
long as you realize you will pay SUBSTANTIALLY more money to own an
airplane
similarly equipped as one you can rent

#1 and #4 go pretty much exacerbate each other, wouldn't you say?

Years ago, when I was building time, the club I belonged to had only two of
about 25 planes that even mildly IFR equipped.

Right now, I'm looking to buy since most of it's use will be for business
(about 75% or more).

You might add a (6) Ability to take overnight trips.

If you need to be gone 2-3 days, it's not unrealistic to expect to be
charged 9 hours time.

Fortunately we'll be able to afford a "newer" airplane (1987-1992). Anything
to look out for going THAT way?