You'll also be the guy incurring the emergency away-from-home maintenance,
which invariably seems to be more expensive than getting things fixed at
home (if for nothing else other than overnight shipping of the out of
stock part so you can get home).

David Megginson wrote:

"Steve" writes:

If I fly 10 hours to florida and land twice, I don't wear the tires
as much as the guy doing touch and goes for an hour.

This kind of attitude is what causes partnerships to fail.

Right. Besides, you burn a lot more gas and oil, and run the engine a
lot hotter in cruise than you do in circuits (at least, that's what
I've found with my plane). Everything balances out in the end.

All the best,

David

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