GA article - Rocky Mtn News

gkainz said:
I saw that in the paper on Sunday ... I want one! A Texan, that is. :yes:
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And who says pilots arent' rich playboys. A T-6 Texan, then this:

"By 7:30 that night, after a long day jammed with meetings and witness interviews, Thibodeau is back in Denver, sipping a glass of merlot and dining on a New York steak at a Centennial Airport restaurant."

Jeez. I'd settle for a Yak-52 and a Fat Tire. :)
 
Richard said:
$6,000 to $10,000 for the IR?!!!
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IR needs 40 hrs of instruction, doesn't it? If so, at $145 hr for the plane and instructor, it comes out pretty close to $6k
 
Might be a little high but depending on what you train in getting to $6000 isn't that hard. C172 around here go for $85-120/hrs. As a ball park these days I tell folks it is $6M for the private and another $6M for the IR. I know there is much variance but add everything up after the instrument checkride.
 
Really depends what you want to include. 40 hours of real or simulated IFR, but only 15 required to be with a CFII (balance could be under the hood with a safety pilot for example). Of course, there's also 50 hours of cross country required. Should some of that be included in the cost? (It can almost all be VFR if you so choose). In addition, certain simulators can be used for up to 20 hours of the required 40 hours of real or simulated IFR. So it really depends how you want to train, and what ala carte items you want to include in the costs.
 
Yep, also the guy with the T6 is not the same guy who was drinking the Merlot.... but who cares, probably many more inaccuracies in the article ("Executives and business owners then would either need to rent jets when they need them or purchase a plane, which would cost at least $40,000 and probably more").

That one is certainly misleading to the uninitiated at best, and speaks of lack of understanding (or caring) about the subject. Still, a good article overall, and quite positive.
 
T Bone said:
Yep, also the guy with the T6 is not the same guy who was drinking the Merlot.... but who cares, probably many more inaccuracies in the article ("Executives and business owners then would either need to rent jets when they need them or purchase a plane, which would cost at least $40,000 and probably more").
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Yep. Poetic license on my part, something the media is very good at. Just trying to prolong the myth and amuse myself. OK to get is straight. The guy with the T-6 also has a 421. The other guy has drinks Merlot with his steak. :)
 
T Bone said:
Yep, also the guy with the T6 is not the same guy who was drinking the Merlot....
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But the guy with the Conquest, drinking the Merlot also has a P-51. :yes:
 
ejensen said:
Might be a little high but depending on what you train in getting to $6000 isn't that hard. C172 around here go for $85-120/hrs. As a ball park these days I tell folks it is $6M for the private and another $6M for the IR. I know there is much variance but add everything up after the instrument checkride.
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Wow, that is high, we must really be rich playboys. :rolleyes:
Don
 
Anthony said:
The other guy has drinks Merlot with his steak. :)
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I have a cheap cab with my pork chop. And only have one old Mooney. Does that count?
 
Good to see a positive GA article for a change and with no more than the usual media errors.
 
ejensen said:
I have a cheap cab with my pork chop. And only have one old Mooney. Does that count?
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Only if you burp afterwards. :)

I wish the media would just profile some of us regular folks who fly and/or own planes, not just the upper echelon of the aircraft food chain with the ability to have a business twin and a warbird, etc. Hey, I admire people that can afford that and it makes me glad to see them spend money on GA, but I think it gives the public the wrong impression that you have to be VERY rich to fly your own plane or be a pilot. It may dissaude some from even trying to get into flying.
 
You make a good point, I thought the T6 was a little much. At least they were pistons for the most part. Including the smaller guy would have been nice. I know several that use planes for business advantage in our class. One is a radio tech who uses a 182 to service small town comm systems.
 
ejensen said:
Might be a little high but depending on what you train in getting to $6000 isn't that hard. C172 around here go for $85-120/hrs. As a ball park these days I tell folks it is $6M for the private and another $6M for the IR. I know there is much variance but add everything up after the instrument checkride.
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$6M??? Ouch! $6K is bad enough, but... I guess we are rich playboys with budgets like that. :rolleyes:
 
Ghery said:
$6M??? Ouch! $6K is bad enough, but... I guess we are rich playboys with budgets like that. :rolleyes:
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Didn't even catch that. In much of my work at least the finance aside M is 1,000 and MM is 1,000,000. From the Latin mille. But then on the tech side it is K,M,G,T.
 
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