Colonel Sanders wrote:Nice list of hardware you guys have come up with,
but like a dog chasing a car that stops, what would
you do about maintenance? Who would you call
the first time it broke?!
You would need your own (huge) hangar somewhere
to store this stuff indoors. You probably couldn't build
the hangar at a nearby airport, so like many people you
would need to first buy a huge piece of land and construct
your own runway.
At your own base, you would need your own full-time
staff of AME's and likely need to push the paper for your
own AMO and oh yeah, a parts store with a POC for your
turbine stuff. Green tags everywhere.
Likely you wouldn't be qualified, so you'd also have to
hire a pilot, experienced on each type, until you were.
You'd probably need a little twin just to run parts
and people about the place, when stuff broke down,
as it always does.
This fancy, rare hardware needs infrastructure, guys.
A lot of people, paper and parts. At least, this is what
I see, when I see a neat, rare airplane. It doesn't exist
in isolation.
That pretty much eats up any Lotto winnings or inheritance right there..
Like I said, I'd beg, borrow, or rent time on as many different aircraft as I could to gain experience and get people with real money with fancy aircraft to be their go-to guy as far as maintenance, ferrying, parts ordering, paperwork, and logistics.
If you want to go somewhere in style, buy a fractional. There's always a plane available if one goes on the fritz; POC (or probably AOC), maintenance, parts, hangars, and crew are all taken care of; and you can spend that money on a nice dacha when you get there instead of on a plane that will inevitably spend most of its time sitting, costing you money.
