Cost of ownership????

On Mar 25, 5:56 am, Mike Spera wrote:

A far worse injustice is leveled on many airplanes. Namely, the owner
cannot really afford the plane so they choose to buy gas to fly around
and then skimp on the maintenance. He/she then demands a ridiculous
selling price for their run out dog when the HAVE to sell.

Well, nobody is forced to pay a ridiculous price for a run out plane.
The seller can ask all he wants, but the buyer can simply go somewhere
else. Eventually the market will take care of the price.

I consider it my
responsibility to keep an airplane in good shape (repairs, upgrades,
etc.). Many people (especially in my home America) have a hard time with
this concept.

Repairs, absolutely. Upgrades? I'd rather see owners skip that
GNS430 install and use that money to fly across the country three
times and visiting places. Of course it would be nice to do both, but
most people had to choose one vs. another. A lot of owners chose to
be a curator instead of an aviator.

The problem with GA isn't people not taking care of old planes. It's
people not flying enough. Unless your plane is a P-51, I don't see
anything wrong with old plane gets used up and eventually goes to
junkyard if it's used up for good reasons, like 20,000 hr on the wing
spar. The problem with GA isn't people not taking care of old
planes. It's people not flying nearly enough. If GA flying hour is
10x of today and all the old planes get used up in about 10 years,
we'll have a much healthier GA industry and the new planes are likely
to be less than half of what they cost today because of the large
volume production.