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Whiskey Tango said:91.13
labbats said:Up to 16 hours duty time. You can't possibly comprehend how unsafe it is until you're in the seat after 15 hours.
Just a quick estimate to give you an idea of the possible savings for a student building hours:
Rental: 500h C182 * $150 wet lease = $72K.
Owner: C182 (Buy-Sell=Expense): ($85K-$74K=$11K) + (500h * 12GPH * $2.70 Per Gallon (pre-paid fuel card)= $16K) + 12months insurance $2000 + Registration $2000 + Maintenance $6000 = $37K
CalifDan said:The FAR I would like to change is the one regarding the sharing of cost among passengers on Part 91 flights. If I rent a Duchess I can split the cost among three other friends or relatives for a flight at the full rental rate, say 200 an hour or about 50 per seat. Flying my Duchess I can share fuel cost only or about 80 per hour and 20 per seat. Just has never seemed fair.
CalifDan said:just not that much less expensive.
SPilot said:Its still a 40% saving over rental.
Sorry for 'hijacking' the thread with this stuff.
Lead Sled said:Along these same lines, what would the most often violated FAR be? My hunch is that it is probably the ones that deal with supplimental O2. Wait, that can't be - everyone wears the masks when the regs call for it.
'Sled
Thanks for your input, I wasnt really sure about my estimate. But do you think a C182 will depricate as much as $11000 in 500 hours or one year? I got the price from aircraftealer.com and it appears that a couple of years difference doesnt make such huge difference in price.
Block price of $150 is what I got from googling 'C182 rental', so yes, at least 150. The prices are really more like 165-170 around where I live.
But let me try again:
Rental: 500h C182 * $150 wet lease = $72K.
Owner: C182 (Buy-Sell=Expense): ($85K-$75K=$10K) + (500h * 12GPH * $3.70 Per Gallon = $22K) + (12months parking&tie-down * $100 = $1200) + 12months insurance $1200 + Registration $200 + Maintenance $8000 = approx $42K
Its still a 40% saving over rental.
Sorry for 'hijacking' the thread with this stuff.
I thought it was 8 feet bottle to throttle. My bad.B-J-J Fighter said:8 hrs bottle to throttle