Originally posted by gatso
It is however a bad way of selling the thing. Likely there's less than 20 people in the US with both the money and the experience to fly the thing safely anyway, better to just ask around.
200k is GD expensive anyway. There's cheaper to be had.
Gatso
A brand you Cessna 182 fully equiped will cost you more.
The fuel is the killer. My previous Skytyper leader, ex Croatian Mig21 pilot, it's longest mission was 47 minutes:D
Put the burner on, climb to alt and get ready to come back, you out of fuel.
Buying is always ok, usually you enjoy the thing till you need to overhaul the engine. Having the training to fly it is "easy" in a Mig21, a lot of two seaters available. In Chino, there is a Hawker, the guy (a chyropractor) can't fly it, he cannot get it's hand on a two seater Hawker. He has only a private pilot too, but you don't need anything anyway. So he comes on the week end, in it's flying suite and washes it.
As far as having fun in it, you have the 250kts restriction below 10,000ft. If you go above and push it at Mach2, you better know where you are, a couple of minutes of fun and you just busted a restricted airspace. Cross the flight path of an airliner while doing some of funky flying, and enjoy the reading of an "airmiss".... you can always shut down your transpondeur but ATC will be more than happy to send f16s to wonder what's cruising around at mach2. When F16s take off, you the one who pays the bill BTW:cool:
I don't say you can't have fun, you just can't have "unpredicted fun". Everyfligth is a paperwork nightmare .... rememebr ... 47 minutes:D
