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tinny said
As gently as I can lad it's like this.
yes it's cheaper to hire the same for the same number of hours.
Has anyone else gone down this path?
yes and down the gurgler with it.
It is only a "thought" at the moment
have a Bex, a nice cup of tea and a lay down until the feeling goes away.
Now if you have plenty of money and can afford to shoot it up on your hobby by all means go ahead, you will need lots of it (close to $200,000) and a great deal of determination to rack up 500 hrs "command time" just tooling around.
Whether it wil get you closer to your dream is seriously moot.
Otherwise go see our friend Bob he will be the only person making money going in and going out.
And we ask ourselves why this whole GA charter business is in extremis?