re: Is There a Sexier Modern Day Personal Plane than the SF50?

Still don’t see any pics

Ga manufacturers have also made it hard to fly. A 172 has only minor changes year to year, yet a new one in $500,000. You can get a nice used one with a glass cockpit for $65,000.
The engines are what pisses me off. An air cooled boxer engine block is $18,000???
Insanity.
I really want a C177 cardinal but the added costs scare me away.
I can afford the buy in, but can't justify the expenses.

Would rather have a supercub.

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Would rather have a supercub.

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my cousin had a husky for a while that thing was badass.
he could take off and land just about anywhere

we even tried to shoot hogs out of it one time

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V Tail Bonanza

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The infamous Doctor Killer?

Upgrade bug isn’t necessarily realistic.

Tired of all this posing.

Here is my plane - a Cessna 301B - Tail number N5348A



The Cowl marking is Songbird. That is my personal pilot Sky and copilot Clipper. My personal Stewardess's name is Penny. She is not shown in this photo.

Sr22’s are not for the wealthy only. New ones maybe, but g2’s are mid 200’s. That isn’t crazy expensive when you realize that most GA aircraft are financed for 20 years. Really only about $1,500/month financing costs before flying.

As for the times. If I’m flying for an hour, it’s about equal by the time I drive to the airport, go, and then get a car and go where I was going. Anywhere over that and it beats driving easily. The previous poster was absolutely correct though that it is the flying that is the attractive part. Being able to use it for traveling is a bonus. Sometimes I just go up and fly back and forth between local airports. It makes sense due to my plane being experimental with vastly reduced maintenance and operating costs. A cirrus is going to run you about $285/hr to operate. Mine is about $50/hr and I’m only about 10kts slower but on half the fuel.

There are two smart ways to fly - with someone else paying for it, or experimental.

Jets will make you cry when you have to deal with the annuals and maintenance. That 750-1mm jet is going to cost you 200-400k every year in required maintenance.

I had a cirrus owner show me their spreadsheet a while back. That was on a 2006 g2. If we assume that you actually do own the plane that you won’t post pics of.....and it is a 2011, then it is possible that you may leave lower costs than one that is 5 years older.....but I doubt that as well.