cost of ownership

In article m,
Richard Kaplan wrote:
If you do an honest assessment of the cost to own an airplane, virtually no
airplane owner can operate his airplane cheaper than he coudl rent the same
airplane.

Mainly because virtually no renter would fly as many hours as an owner.
You can make the cost per hour work out better (assuming you don't
botch the prebuy and the airplane market doesn't collapse while you
own it) but the *total* annual cost will be higher.

--
Ben Jackson

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