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Old 10th Jul 2006, 12:03
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Having just sold my lovely little 4 seater recently, after having it for around 12 months, I gotta say that as an economic proposition it is a disaster, but as an old mate said once, you gotta have one at least once. I only did about 10 or 15 hours in a year so divide that into the insurance and all the rest of the maintenance cost etc, it works out at about $4-500 an hour for a Cherokee.... Aaaaahhhhhh!!
However, if I didn't own that plane I wouldn't have had that nice time flying around as I wouldn't have gone out and hired one so it was worth it. Remember, some people pay lots to join golf clubs etc so you can't put a price on it. Only live once so if you wanna do it then 'Just do it" Happy Flying
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