Which aircraft to buy?
Hello Pilots,
I have my SEP license but I'm not getting up there. Hiring C152s at Shoreham is all well and good but I don't enjoy flying them much. I have decided that the only way to keep me in the air is to buy a fun flying machine, but I don't know what to get.
I have about 130 hours, 35 of them on Piper Cubs, a machine that I thoroughly enjoy flying. I learnt on C152s and have flown a C172, a Warrior and Super Decatholan, but they don't really do it for me. A little too refined.
I want a taildragger and a TST Thruster comes to mind as being a whole lot of fun, if rather impractical, but the hours will not count towards my licence renewals.
I notice that quite a number of Microlight fixed wings can be classified as Group A aircraft and are on Permit to Fly and run on Mogas. I'd rather not have a machine on a C of A due to costs.
Something that blends (relative) economy with a lot of fun. Do any of you wise aviators have any suggestions?