We needed a 4 place and didn't have time to build so the plan was to sell the 7. My 14 year old made this. I don't think he wants me to sell it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHYTEtkP7Y0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHYTEtkP7Y0
The FBO will rent me an airplane but not if I want to take it anywhere.
What? I've never heard of FBO not renting for the purposes of a X-country. Now I've seen plenty of limitations based upon ratings and such, but never an outright prohibition.
The biggest impediment that I've seen has been scheduling and aircraft availability.
Just food for thought -- how often will you really fill 3 or 4 seats? If it's just for an occasional vacation trip, you might be better off keeping your 7 and renting something larger when you need the extra seats. I know it's hard to think of renting when you're an owner, but sometimes it makes sense.
We needed a 4 place and didn't have time to build so the plan was to sell the 7. My 14 year old made this. I don't think he wants me to sell it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHYTEtkP7Y0
Steve,
That video says more about you and how you raised that boy than anything else. Well done amigo. Well done.
DM
oh, keep the plane...
I see an awful lot of positives and few negatives for someone doing this who may be contemplating renting a 4-place a few times a year. To me it is like owning your own home vs renting, or perhaps more to the point, going to a laundry mat vs owning your own washer and dryer.
Hear, Hear!
Exactly what I was thinking.
Yes, I would agree with your statement if the only thing to consider were the dollars you would pull out of your wallet to pay the gate keeper to enter the game. However, as I stated in my post, there are other positives besides monetary that could tip toward owning vs renting. Just as there are other positives of owning a washer/dryer vs laundry mat (i.e. using the washer just after a roughneck ran his work coveralls through it).The key is useage. How often will it fly? To use your examples, if you had a vacation home you only used 4 times a year, you would rent, not own. And if you only did your laundry 4 times a year you wouldn't own a washer!