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Originally Posted by Tim Hancock
Pilatus PC 12.... Single pilot.... Capable of landing on smaller strips including grass. Being able to land at smaller county airports is much nicer/easier compared to landing in the big cities at massive busy airports.
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Back in the 1990s I was working for a man that owned a Bellanca Super Viking. He liked to go eat at the Wiley Post airport, and rode with him to lunch. On the way back we stopped to look at a Pilatus in front of a aircraft sale place owned by a friend. There was a guy dressed as a captain, and he was there as an employee of Pilatus. The owner of the aircraft sales asked if we might want to fly up to Enid, for pie. The boss said sure, and we were happy to go. It is a 15 minute flight or so, and we landed and ate some of the famous pie at Woodring Airport in Enid, OK. Great pie that many pilots land there just for pie.
We flew back and I said to the boss, so this is what is like to be really rich. It is nice to fly in a airplane like that.