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It comes down to (as others have mentioned) the quality of the repair and how well you buy it. I owned a repaired CAPS deployment SR22 for many years and ~1000 hours of flying. I was 100% confident in the repairs and the airframe (the engine is a different story but that applies to all...

Super cool picture!

Nice pictures!

Most important part is to remember to strap fire extinguishers to your legs and wear a parachute.

I very much hope that one or both of them end up being bitten by the flying bug! Would be great to see them learn to fly.

From our recent trip to Florida to see grandma and grandpa.

They're the worst - bunch of thieves... I once had to pay a year's worth of property taxes on a plane I didn't own for any part of that year to San Diego while not living or setting foot anywhere near San Diego for that year... They call it "property tax" but apparently it can be applied to...

2200 NM westbound in one day - and zero meltdown from the kids!

Thanks for that post - I was actually thinking of you (and an acquaintance who has a jet and flies a friend's P300 on occasion as paid pilot) when I asked the question. Not sure it would fit into my life any time soon but it is interesting to see how others are able to make it work.

A couple from this morning in Naples - my wife forgot some stuff on the plane so I had to go retrieve it and it was a beautiful sunrise. Wish I had brought the real camera but the iPhone does OK!

I'm sure there is definitely some grass is greener aspect but it seems like it would be a fun second career if I had sufficient passive income to be able to afford it... And yes, I would need to get commercial but that I will likely do that this year anyway since it is pretty easy to combine...

Just out of curiosity, what type of job could I potentially get if I got the ATP? I am currently PPL only but have 2 type ratings (C510S and C525S), 2900 TT, ~400 twin turbofan.

Brings back memories - as a kid, I used to spend my summers near Galway in Ireland where my grandparents had a place. The burren and cliffs of Moher were frequent day trip destinations!

One upside of a super wet winter is that the hills around here (usually brown) are vibrant green - looks more like Ireland than CA!

Is there an operational scenario where you would want brakes and ABs at the same time or is this simply a manner of being easier to leave it to the pilot to figure out versus engineering a interconnect between two independent systems? The logic for having the interconnect in the Citations is...

Going to AB doesn't auto retract speed brakes on a T38? I know nothing about fighter-type aircraft but bizjet types (at least the ones I fly) auto retract SBs with thrust above a certain level. In fact it is on the preflight checklist to extend speed brakes, verify extension, quickly go to max...

My kids (3 & 5) love turbulence. I perplexed a center controller the other day when he offered FL350 because it was universally reported as smooth while I was in continuous chop at 370 and I turned it down because “we like the chop”. It didn’t hurt that I had a couple extra knots of tailwind too…

LOL the Pratt 615Fs on the Mustang that I fly generate 1460 lb of thrust and they're burning over 100 GPH doing that... This is ridiculous

25.69 was recorded in the eye of a hurricane once (I believe at see level).

Thanks for the helpful replies! Learned some stuff!