"Andrey Serbinenko" wrote in message
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Yes, you can still rent if you like, in addition to owning an airplane.
If you can afford both. Your airplane sitting on the ramp is money wasted,
and this can be a significant factor when choosing your next destination.

Why would it be a significant factor when choosing your next destination?

If you can fly your airplane there, you would. Owning is a benefit in that
case.

If you can't fly your airplane there, then you don't. But it's not as
though your owned airplane costs you MORE just because you had to travel
without it. If when you are at your destination, you choose to rent an
airplane locally, then you have the expense for that rental, but you'd have
that expense whether or not you owned an airplane. Again, owning the
airplane doesn't increase your cost in that situation.

I don't see any way that owning an airplane ties you to your home base, nor
do I see any way that owning an airplane restricts one's ability to fly
other airplanes elsewhere.

I've owned my airplane for 12 years now, and not once have I found that
owning an airplane has in any way restricted my ability to travel or other
fly other airplanes.

Your comment sounds a lot like something someone who has never owned an
airplane might say when trying to find some reason to not own an airplane.
There ARE reasons to not own an airplane (economics and the hassle of
managing the airplane being the two main ones), but the question of what
one's options are when traveling without the owned airplane is NOT among
them.

Pete