Aviation Sure Gets Awful PR

[Colonel]

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[quote]Should provincial politicians have government jets to fly them around on the public dime?

Alison Redford got booted from office over her use of Alberta government aircraft (which have since been sold).

B.C.’s Christy Clark spends about $100,000 a year chartering jets for her and her entourage.

And the Saskatchewan NDP says Economy Minister Bill Boyd used a private government jet 279 times in the last four years to fly between Regina and his hometown of Eston.

The Sask government says its three planes are “good value”, but politicians always say that.

[b]It’s another perk ordinary people can’t even dream of but politicians defend, because they’re special.[/b][/quote]

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Meanwhile, $7M buys a condemned hovel in BC - and
no one has a problem with that.

[ScudRunner-d95]

What would the operating costs of one of those L29 be Colonel? Yearly, Maintenance , Per hour, and how much to instruct me?

[Colonel]

Fouga is actually French ...

You can annual an L29/L39 in a day.

Maintenance costs are incredibly low.
Parts are cheap - no tags.  Like a homebuilt.

Jet fuel is your big expense.  Buy 10,000
liters at a time.

If you've flown a jet before, a type rating is
$500 for one day's instruction.

My advice:  get a Pitts S1 and a jet.

I'd like a MiG-21.

[David MacRay]

How about a mig 15 or 17?

They look fun.

[ScudRunner-d95]

[quote author=Colonel Sanders link=topic=2305.msg7128#msg7128 date=1457135531]
Fouga is actually French ...

You can annual an L29/L39 in a day.

Maintenance costs are incredibly low.
Parts are cheap - no tags.  Like a homebuilt.

Jet fuel is your big expense.  Buy 10,000
liters at a time.

If you've flown a jet before, a type rating is
$500 for one day's instruction.

My advice:  get a Pitts S1 and a jet.

I'd like a MiG-21.
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So would I! but 29K cost of entry seams like a more civilized number to me.

[Colonel]

Feel like a trip to Albania?

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A friend of mine has spent the last 20+
years (since the Berlin wall fell) going
over to eastern Europe and bringing home
this kind of stuff jammed into containers.

He has a tiny, rough, rolling strip on his
farm in Delware that you wouldn't take a
172 into.

He assembles Russian fighter jets (eg
L29, L39, MiG-21, MiG-23) and takes them
off from there (once - never lands there)
and lands them at nearby ILG.

Afterburners are nice for short field ops.
Write that down.