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Originally Posted by flipper35
I always wanted a Cherokee 6 to fly us around in. $135 per hour to fly though plus the annual and 100 hour inspections. It isn't cheaper than commercial, but there is far less stress.
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If you fly with a full passenger load, and have time to sit and wait on good weather it can be less expensive. If you are renting you can't just fly somewhere and afford to have it just sit for several days while you are on vacation. If you own there is often a vacuum pump or an alternator will die and cost several hundred to fix. And an oil change, and a new new tire, or some other maintenance item need attention.
And if you own, there is a nice pricey hangar and 4 to 5 hundred per month, if you fly or not.
Several of the local pilot groups have a fly in to a restaurant a hundred miles away. They call it getting a $200 hamburger or burrito.