Least Expensive Plane To Buy and Own

On Aug 26, 8:48 am, (Paul Tomblin) wrote:
In a previous article, said:

Whenever your requirements include longer trips with little flying time
(e.g. fly to a nice place an hour or two away, stay for three or four
days and fly back), both rentals and most flying clubs aren't an option.

Flying clubs are. I regularly fly a club plane to Ottawa (1.75 hours
flight time) and then stay for two or three days. I've flown to Oshkosh
(4.5 hours flight time) and let it sit for 8 days. Not all flying clubs
are douchebags about minimum flying hours per day.

That's my club experience too. We are pretty flexible, with a minimum
usage charge of 1 hour per day. Scheduling rules are flexible enough
that I don't think anyone has failed to take a trip because of them
(now, failing to take a trip because there is no plane available,
that's a different story -- that's the rub of the tradeoff between
renting and owning).

But in reference to Thomas' rebuttal, we have 8 planes in our fleet
and about 150 flying members.