For as long I can remember I've wanted to fly. It seems for just as long I've dreamt of owning my own aeroplane. My own little machine. For the last 5 years I've been saving hard and it was difficult because we just bought a house at the same time as I started saving. All a long the motivation had been aviation - and the promise of free money from the government. That savings plan has matured now and there a serious risk of the money incinerating my pocket.
For a long time I've also harboured notions of building my own plane and I still do. But lots of reading and sensible encouragement from Herself and others has me questioning those notions. I do believe that I'd like to build a plane, to be able to look back and say "see that aeroplane, I built that". I've listened to others though and I now I know; I want to fly more than I want to build. With that question answered honestly, my mind has turned to ownership.
Ideally, I'd like to own something like an Vans RV - something quick, purposeful with a useful range. I haven't saved that much yet. Shared ownership is, financially, the way to go. It give a bigger budget for a better plan and it dilutes the fixed cost of owning a 'plane; hangarage and insurance There's a catch. I'm relatively new to this flying game - from the perspective of the established fliers. I'm not necessarily the sort of guy that long-in-the aviators are immediately going to trust in a group. From a learning perspective, that sort of group would be perfect for me. At the same time, I'm clued-in enough to know that me setting up a group with people you don't know well is fraught with dangers. Biggest of all I don't know that many pilots well enough to share bills with. So right now I'm sort of snookered.
The other alternative that I'm playing with is back in the direction of plan A. A group, as one sage instructor put it, made up of me, myself and I. That plan sees me not building but going out and buying a cheap, maybe old, aeroplane on my own. I was thinking Luscombe 8, the aforementioned instructor suggested Cessna 150. If I go down the solo route, I'm foregoing the mentoring that a group may give, I'll have to source hangarage and insurance on my own and I'll have to foot all of the bills. It's all a bit daunting - and yet somehow continued renting after I get the PPL just doesn't appeal.
I think I need to think a bit more.
For as long I can remember I've wanted to fly. It seems for just as long I've dreamt of owning my own aeroplane. My own little machine. For the last 5 years I've been saving hard and it was difficult because we just bought a house at the same time as I started saving. All a long the motivation had been aviation - and the promise of free money from the government. That savings plan has matured now and there a serious risk of the money incinerating my pocket.
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