Anyone still flying gyrocopters?

"Morgans" wrote:

I'm a bit bothered about this, Old guy, at 54 I don't feel like and
'old guy', do I become an 'old guy' on my next birthday?

The saying goes, that the impression of old is anyone 15 years older than
yourself.

Think about it. It holds true, pretty well. The poster has just told
everyone else about his "inexperience", hasn't he? g

Then there is BOb, who even admits that he is old! g
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You know you're old when......
AARP solicits you for membership.

That would be age 55.



Barnyard BOb -- 10 year member

"Barnyard BOb --" wrote in message
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Then there is BOb, who even admits that he is old! g
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

You know you're old when......
AARP solicits you for membership.

That would be age 55.



Barnyard BOb -- 10 year member

Hmmm, AARP solicited me when I turned 50 - guess I'm in the dinosaur
category, or maybe fossil.

Michael Pilla

You know you're old when......
AARP solicits you for membership.

That would be age 55.



Barnyard BOb -- 10 year member

Hmmm, AARP solicited me when I turned 50 - guess I'm in the dinosaur
category, or maybe fossil.

Michael Pilla
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OOPS.
Sorry, Michael...
I stand corrected.
Age 50 it is.

It's all I can do to remember my "N" number
inscribed on the instrument panel in BIG letters.


Barnyard BOb -
Who needs Viagra....
When you have aviation.

Barnyard BOb -- wrote:



Barnyard BOb -
Who needs Viagra....
When you have aviation.

Damn! What do you do when you can't have either?

Barnyard BOb -- wrote:

It's all I can do to remember my "N" number
inscribed on the instrument panel in BIG letters.

You may have to trade up (?) to an RV-6 so you can take someone along
to remind you soon...

Mark Hickey

Mark Hickey wrote:

Barnyard BOb -- wrote:

It's all I can do to remember my "N" number
inscribed on the instrument panel in BIG letters.

You may have to trade up (?) to an RV-6 so you can take someone along
to remind you soon...

Mark Hickey
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

You bet.
Trading up is the answer!
Especially, since my hangar rent just DOUBLED.

This would cut my costs...
PER SEAT MILE
to what I'm already paying.

Following this logic --
If I acquire an RV-10....
I can cut my costs in half again.
Nothing like pricing costs based on a per seat mile basis.
When flying gets far too expensive for the family budget,
just add a few seats to make it, once again, affordable.


Barnyard BOb -- figures can lie and liars can figure

BOb

How much longer before you just build your own hanger? Or get your own
grass strip and to he** with bean counters.

Big John
Older than you

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 23:52:28 -0500, Barnyard BOb --
wrote:



Mark Hickey wrote:

Barnyard BOb -- wrote:

It's all I can do to remember my "N" number
inscribed on the instrument panel in BIG letters.

You may have to trade up (?) to an RV-6 so you can take someone along
to remind you soon...

Mark Hickey
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

You bet.
Trading up is the answer!
Especially, since my hangar rent just DOUBLED.

This would cut my costs...
PER SEAT MILE
to what I'm already paying.

Following this logic --
If I acquire an RV-10....
I can cut my costs in half again.
Nothing like pricing costs based on a per seat mile basis.
When flying gets far too expensive for the family budget,
just add a few seats to make it, once again, affordable.


Barnyard BOb -- figures can lie and liars can figure

BOb

How much longer before you just build your own hanger? Or get your own
grass strip and to he** with bean counters.

Big John
Older than you
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

NEVER!!!!!

One cannot build one's own hangar at 3GV.
When the airport corporation sees fit, they build
and sell new hangars. The last ones went for
$45,000 and the monthly maintenance fee
recently went up to $190 a month... for now.
Makes no sense to me to put a $25,000 plane
in a $45,000 hangar and pay a maintenance
fee of $190 to boot.

OTOH....
With your kind of money maybe you are
prepared to buy the necessary acreage in
the sticks for your own strip, but I find that
I have no desire to mow grass if somebody
gave me the land. My buddy about 60 miles
away, did just what you suggested. He had to
buy 100 acres to start and had a boat load of
trouble with the Army Corp of Engineers when
he started to cut trees and blade off the land.
After a couple of years, he had well over
$300,000 in the project plus he still needed
to build living quarters with attached hangar.
His outlay has passed .5 million and all he has
is an old C-721 and a new Kitfox IV, but this
was his dream and now it's fulfilled. I'm happy
for him, of course, but this is not for me.

The practical thing for me to do is...
bide my time until I can find an owner of a small
T hangar that wants to bail out. Problem is,
there are lots of sharks waiting to snap them up
and then go into the $170 to $200 a month slum
lord hangar rental business. I've got the word out that
I'm looking to buy one of these 35 year old pole barn
relics, but they sell fast and it's just a matter of luck
and being in the right place at the right time to get one....
then being prepared to put a roof on and who knows
what else.


Barnyard BOb

"Barnyard BOb --" wrote in message
...


Mark Hickey wrote:

Barnyard BOb -- wrote:

It's all I can do to remember my "N" number
inscribed on the instrument panel in BIG letters.

You may have to trade up (?) to an RV-6 so you can take someone along
to remind you soon...

Mark Hickey
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

You bet.
Trading up is the answer!
Especially, since my hangar rent just DOUBLED.

Maybe they want you out. Potbellied ol' curmudgeon.

Move to Pahrump or Beebers, ND. Hangar rent is cheap there and curmudgeons
are plentiful.

Deming, NM?


This would cut my costs...
PER SEAT MILE
to what I'm already paying.

Whine, whine, whine.

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Michael Pilla wrote:
"Barnyard BOb --" wrote in message
.. .
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Then there is BOb, who even admits that he is old! g
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

You know you're old when......
AARP solicits you for membership.

That would be age 55.



Barnyard BOb -- 10 year member

Hmmm, AARP solicited me when I turned 50 - guess I'm in the dinosaur
category, or maybe fossil.

Michael Pilla



Bah! AARP solicited me the year I turned TWENTY.

That happened to be the year my father (we share the same first name,
although with different middle names) turned 55, _and_ he moved to
a different town, *AND* I had my own place.