What if your mission is futzing?

wabower said:
ANFL. A high percentage of pilots who thought (or pretended to think) that their annual flying would consist of numerous trips to a number of destinations found their post-purchase flying to be mostly futzing, and very high-priced futzing to boot. At some point the price of futzing exceeded the fun of futzing and their plane went somewhere else to live. Accordingly, they no longer travel or futz much if at all.

If you're sure you won't ever need or want to go anywhere but would like to be a safe and compete futzer in the meantime, you must decide how much training you want to accomplish to achieve your goal. Once you have completed whatever it turns out to be, please post again with your observations.
Click to expand...

In a perfect world I'd have an old (or homebuilt) two seater to futz in and either a big single or small twin for traveling.

As this is an imperfect world I have a 182, something that falls nicely in the middle.
 
ANFL. A high percentage of pilots who thought (or pretended to think) that their annual flying would consist of numerous trips to a number of destinations found their post-purchase flying to be mostly futzing, and very high-priced futzing to boot. At some point the price of futzing exceeded the fun of futzing and their plane went somewhere else to live. Accordingly, they no longer travel or futz much if at all.
Click to expand...

Yep. A bunch of those airplanes are sitting in hangars out at my home base. With fuel cost being what it is, the flying is getting less and less.
 
The Onex is looking more and more like the perfect futzing machine. Folding wings, so I can maybe share a hangar to keep costs down. Experimental, but proven design. A real airplane, but no heavy maintenance costs. I'm in no real hurry, so I could either build one in a year or buy someone else's in progress project and complete it in less, so as long as they built by the book. I've built everything from minibikes to cars from junkyard scrap, so I think this would be fun for me. What am I not considering here?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top