Feeling the pinch too ah, it was a hard decission to make as in one mind, I want to share my flying with my family, however, what I am really affraid of is that in the next few years they decide, OK, flyng is fun, but here are other things they want to do, and I end up flying around by myself in an aircraft the sucks more fuel than I really care to feed it whilst flying on my own - if you know what I mean, anyway its too late now the money has been spent and its sitting there int he hangar waiting to be utilised.
Good luck with your search for an appropriate aircraft, as I mentioned earlier, it was a pain staking effort as the only real aircraft that meet the challenge was the Cherokee 180E (or similar) and this one, and as it was hard to find a cherokee here in OZ that would pass the test, s in condition and at the right price, this seemed to be the go, plus an underlying desire from many years back to own a classic aircraft. I did not mention that there were only 43 made of this type, however having said that they share most of the parts of the Austers or which there were quite a few make over the years. I forgot to mention that in the deal I also have access to around two other aircraft here in OZ that were bought for parts by the group of Beagle owners, what I mean by that is, there are 6 here in OZ with only 4 flying examples, the 2 non flying aircraft are parts for the remaining 4, one fuse, two sets of wings and a whole bunch of other bits and pieces
Cheers
By the way here is another pic from front on, you can kinda sort of see whay they call it a Beagle, look's like a dog with big brown ears in the pic - think of Pluto and you'll probably see it.
As to Clinton 06, can't wait, it was just killing me watching everyone else having such a good time while I was here at home - Next year for sure, be bring the family along as well, funds permitting
