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Old 21st May 2013, 11:23
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garrya100
 
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I'm with Steevo on that one! It's a great pleasure and privilege to be able to just 'gas it and go' if you want to go away for a weekend. About half my flying is that. The rest is business related.

The Arrow has that combination that suits me of being fast enough to get somewhere reasonably quickly, but slow enough to enjoy the expirience, and cheap enough to do it often.

You can travel a good distance in 2hrs, a weekend on the Queensland coast is a great mid-winter break

One thing I would add, when I started looking at purchasing an aircraft, a wise broker advised me to 'buy your last aircraft first'. The way the market is now you can't make money out of buying and selling aircraft. Some have asked me why I would buy something like an Arrow as a first aircraft, I intend to keep this one for sometime.

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