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That's the only data point I have. The reason I point it out is to
demonstrate that most 'hobby' flyers fly piston. John Travolta and Jimmy
Buffet are the only names I know who fly jets as their personal aircraft.
I'm sure there are others, but they're all out of my price range.

"Steve" wrote in message
...
That sounds like something way bigger than what I would consider
flying.


On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:58:26 GMT, "Steve Foley"
wrote:

Just for comparison:

I was talking to a friend of mine who is a corporate pilot. I spend $200
to
fill the tanks in my Cherokee 140. His company spends $7,000 to fill the
tanks in his Hawker.

On 2005-09-21, Steve Foley wrote:
That's the only data point I have. The reason I point it out is to
demonstrate that most 'hobby' flyers fly piston. John Travolta and Jimmy
Buffet are the only names I know who fly jets as their personal aircraft.
I'm sure there are others, but they're all out of my price range.

We had a few people who would fly into Houston Gulf on occasion who
owned and flew their own jets - usually the single pilot Cessna
Citations.

They were of course very very wealthy.

Privately owned turboprops weren't too uncommon - we had a Jetprop DLX
conversion based there, and we'd occasionally get owner-flown turboprop
twins of various types show up.

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