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Great stuff to see though in Western Canada & especially many of the places I have lived, it would be impossible to see.
Besides to obtain a flying license is on the costly side not to mention the 'used' aircraft (forget a new one) the cost of storage, along with servicing required by inspection boards to make is legal to fly.
So I will stick with riding one of several m/cs though so far can only ride one at a time.
It is only lawyers or doctors that seem to be part-owners of a 'used' single engine aircraft & not a racing or stung craft let along be the solo owner.
True a mid-wing monoplace is probaly great with all the other goodies, but I am an old fart that grew up in the days of byplanes. Even flew one a bit once up in the air. A friend of mine bought a surplus WWII small trainer byplane being a Tiger-moth with plexiglass that would close us both in along with complete controls for the person at the front. He was trying to get his hours in to apply for a commercial license so I was more then willing to pay for half of his petrol costs & once up & flying he would hand the controls over to me to fly straight on to dip the nose a bit to bring it up a bit to even the tricky bit of banking. So it was a lot of fun.
Some fun stories of how he crashed the above, but being in the business of rebuilding aircraft & crashing in the cattle field of a fellow worker, we were able to make the repairs, with what parts we stole from the hanger & a maze of others things. Then some yrs later on as a bushpilot I was up in the air with him when it flew low, to roll this big radial engine high wing unit, over the farm of his g/f only to hit some trees that took us down. A true bushpilot in thinking & you name it. Hey no one was hurt in both cases, but something I experienced.
Remember all the others on the road are crazy & out to kill you.Post Edited (Smitty) : 10/3/2007 9:16:37 PM GMT | 