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Old 9th March 2007 | 09:07
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IO540
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I accept your correction, sternone. However, they still did bet the whole shop... they unfortunately seem to have managed it very poorly. Of course if somebody does recklessly bet everything on what is initially vapour, and pulls it off, he becomes a national hero and nobody questions the risk he took, and I acknowledge that too.

Why don't you buy a turboprop? I see you live in Europe. A TBM700 or 850 will get you from any A to any B in Europe or N Africa in much the same time as a light jet... especially by the time you have slowly and carefully counted out all the cash to hand to the bowser man at some Greek airport, having waited an hour for him to do the Easyjet stuff first It will carry more stuff too, and is likely to cost a lot less in maintenance (although an order of magnitude more than any piston of course). And it will do the shorter runways which Europe is full of.

And, I gather, upper airway route availability isn't quite as free as it used to be, and the Eclipse makes big tradeoffs between weight, operating ceiling and range.
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