ZD902 is still for sale. Chris at Jet Art tells me he is looking for a six figure sum. Every day I daydream about winning Euromillions and learning to fly 'my' Tornado. My starting point is just a humble, faded gliding certificate. I wonder how many hundreds of hours of instruction I'd need to go solo? Maybe I'd never be good enough to get a rating for such a fast, complex beast? I'd certainly need a rather exotic syllabus.
Getting the aircraft airworthy and keeping it that way would presumably incur a seven figure bill. And from what LOMCEVAK says you'd want to add lots of new bits to enable single pilot operation from the front seat.
After all that time and money, what would one be permitted to do? I suppose noise rules mean you can't fly from most civil airfields these days. How far out to sea do you have to be for a sonic boom?
I fancy sticking the ferry tanks on and going to New York via Greenland. I wonder what the MoD and Homeland Security would have to say about that.