Bill & Kirk,
I have just about come to that conclusion. I've been stressed out trying to get a plane found before my wife and I get started on these lessons. Not that we won't still be actively looking,
I'm just going to relax a little bit and rent a plane for 10-20 hours. Take the pressure off a little.
Something that reinforced this decision was a series of private e-mails from another member who has been concerned about me jumping the gun and making a hasty decision that would either be costly or I might regret if we wash out due to loss of interest, complexity, etc. Although I don't think that will happen, his cautious (and prudent) approach to buying a plane is most certianly based upon many examples of people he has observed that are just like me and my wife who also had the best of intentions, but washed out for one reason or another.
What helped me (I say me because this morning my wife said "isn't that what{talking about renting}I've been saying all along" [boy, shouldn't I have known that was coming
])make that decision was when I learned this past week that the previously mentioned 150 with the nice King avionics package was also for rent.
The plane is owned by a guy who owns a prop shop about 45 miles away. He said I could keep it at our local airport about 8 miles from here. Question: is $40/hr. dry a reasonable rate?
Heck, who knows, in the end things may work out and that might be the plane for us. Total time on it is average and time SMOH is about mid time.
Don't get me wrong, I've still got the itch pretty bad to buy our own plane, it's just now I'm not having fever with those fits.
Still looking in Ar
Rusty
