Best location for the $ to live and fly LSAs?

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Very curious if anyone has done their research/homework on this. I'm trying to figure out where the optimal place in the USA would be for a retiree to live and own/fly an LSA at the lowest cost. Why an LSA? Well because they're the lowest cost to buy. My guess is it's going to be somewhere in the Southeast like AL, MS or SC. But I could be way off.

Some criteria:
Low Hangar Rent #1
Low Density Altitude
Field is in a GA friendly community
Not Florida (BTDT too hot, too crowded)

I can't be the first person to consider this, I'd love to hear some thoughts from the lounge.
 
There are plenty of places in Florida that are not crowded and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference from ms Al or sc.
 
Rogue_Ryder said:
Very curious if anyone has done their research/homework on this. I'm trying to figure out where the optimal place in the USA would be for a retiree to live and own/fly an LSA at the lowest cost. Why an LSA? Well because they're the lowest cost to buy. My guess is it's going to be somewhere in the Southeast like AL, MS or SC. But I could be way off.

Some criteria:
Low Hangar Rent #1
Low Density Altitude
Field is in a GA friendly community
Not Florida (BTDT too hot, too crowded)

I can't be the first person to consider this, I'd love to hear some thoughts from the lounge.
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If you’re buying something like a Tecnam or a Jabiru or an Icon, etc., be sure there is a maintainer in the area. Some folks at my airport fly down to Lockwood in Sebring for their annuals, but that’s a short hop. If you have to go several hundred miles, it might be a tad inconvenient and expensive, especially when you’re AOG and have to bring a mechanic to your hangar.
 
Rural mid to southern Minnesota and get one with amphibious floats and an enclosed cabin for winter. Land of a 1,000 lakes and the northern ones would give a retired person endless new places to drown worms pretending to fish.
 
My guess would be rural areas of Kansas.
 
I am seeking an experienced pilot with a ton of useful tidbits that could possibly help me to figure something out. My Nana recently passed, and I was gifted her ‘second sight’. Descendants of Geronimo; the last of his line. I guess you could say it’s a divine mission that I’m on. I found a few areas in Egypt that have petroglyphs all over. From google earth I can only see so much. I am hoping to find someone who knows the ropes of private pilot practices and could share with me the best way to get up close and personal with the specific area that I’m interested in. Ins just east of Alexandria. I’ll attach photos. I can’t figure out what the glyphs are trying to spell out, but whatever it is; my soul is aching to find out. A commercial flight wouldnt get me the view I’m looking for. Any ideas or advice on how to best get an up close view via a private pilot and how much that might run on average? Thanks a bunch and sorry for being so long winded. Any help is awesome!!
 

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I wonder if the "legacy" 1320lb LSA market will soften after MOSAIC.
 
JOhnH said:
Reminds me of the guy that was speaking of a very famous local restaurant:
"Nobody ever goes there; it's always way too crowded".
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

Yogi Berra is attributed to saying this but it predates him by a century.
 
GeorgeC said:
I wonder if the "legacy" 1320lb LSA market will soften after MOSAIC.
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I am told that many of these LSA (including the one that I rent) currently just have a "paper" limit of 1320lbs, and can be increased as the laws change.
 
Baked Potato said:
I am told that many of these LSA (including the one that I rent) currently just have a "paper" limit of 1320lbs, and can be increased as the laws change.
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Sonex recently increased the gross from 1150 to 1220 lbs. for planes over 100 hp. Not sure of their reasoning on that ...

www.sonexaircraft.com

Gross Weight Increase Approved for Sonex and Waiex!

Sonex is excited to announce the approval of a higher maximum gross weight for all Sonex and Waiex aircraft powered by engines of 100hp or greater. Following a series of engineering studies and fli…
www.sonexaircraft.com www.sonexaircraft.com
 
There are quite a number of aircraft that have an artificially low 1320 gross for the US LSA market and higher gross for the European market. Same with some kit planes, the builder can set it to 1320 to make it LSA compliant or a higher number if you don't need it to be LSA. I expect a lot of aircraft will have a GW increase if/when MOSAIC passes.
 
RonNi said:
I am seeking an experienced pilot with a ton of useful tidbits that could possibly help me to figure something out. My Nana recently passed, and I was gifted her ‘second sight’. Descendants of Geronimo; the last of his line. I guess you could say it’s a divine mission that I’m on. I found a few areas in Egypt that have petroglyphs all over. From google earth I can only see so much. I am hoping to find someone who knows the ropes of private pilot practices and could share with me the best way to get up close and personal with the specific area that I’m interested in. Ins just east of Alexandria. I’ll attach photos. I can’t figure out what the glyphs are trying to spell out, but whatever it is; my soul is aching to find out. A commercial flight wouldnt get me the view I’m looking for. Any ideas or advice on how to best get an up close view via a private pilot and how much that might run on average? Thanks a bunch and sorry for being so long winded. Any help is awesome!!
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For starters, move your request to its own posting, please don't piggy back on a thread that isn't related. There's not much GA in the mid-east at the level you're interested in. But try either of these websites.


Trips & Airports - Flying to Egypt

Forums: Trips & Airports - Flying to Egypt
www.euroga.org www.euroga.org
 
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RonNi said:
I am seeking an experienced pilot with a ton of useful tidbits that could possibly help me to figure something out. My Nana recently passed, and I was gifted her ‘second sight’. Descendants of Geronimo; the last of his line. I guess you could say it’s a divine mission that I’m on. I found a few areas in Egypt that have petroglyphs all over. From google earth I can only see so much. I am hoping to find someone who knows the ropes of private pilot practices and could share with me the best way to get up close and personal with the specific area that I’m interested in. Ins just east of Alexandria. I’ll attach photos. I can’t figure out what the glyphs are trying to spell out, but whatever it is; my soul is aching to find out. A commercial flight wouldnt get me the view I’m looking for. Any ideas or advice on how to best get an up close view via a private pilot and how much that might run on average? Thanks a bunch and sorry for being so long winded. Any help is awesome!!
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Try Pilots Of Egypt. Or talk to a historian from a college.
 
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