If money was no object in your life up to a point, say maybe where a million and a half U. S. dollars wouldn't strain you or thereabouts, and you were going to buy or lease a piston twin, what would you get?

The Beechcraft Baron G58 is awfully nice in the vicinity of $1.5 million, with all the Garmin bells and whistles.

If I wanted to spend less, the Diamond Twin Star is kind of intriguing at around half a million.

So what's yours?

Cheers!

Rick...

Grumman Goose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_Goose

Mosquito
Dunno if you could get one for a measly 1.5 mil though. probably have to use £, $1.5 is chump change

Piaggio P-180


Not sure how much it costs. But if you have to ask..

So here I am, Ward Cleaver, admiring the Baron G58 with the Garmin gear, when all off a sudden along comes a parade of non-conformists.

I think I'll go have a cup of hot milk and get to bed early.

Cheers!

Rick...

De Havilland Dove.

But the Grumman Goose is so versatile.

And you can't beat it's romantic and nostalgic factor.

http://www.controller.com/listingsdetail...6B/1145822.htm?

Thought you'd been coming here long enough to know you wouldn't get a sensible answer Rick.
Hot milk's so boring, have a Horlicks.

No doubt it's a classic, breathtaking stuff!

But is it practical?

When's the last time you jumped from a Super DC-3 variant?

Remember the sound of those big radial recips? How long could you listen to that, as the wind blew through the fuselage? And nothing adds spice to life like the occasional ill-timed mag drop, or a delaminating prop that didn't show up until you were far, far from home. Those big Hamilton Standards are pricey and can be hard to come by.

And of course, if you have to do airframe repairs, you'll go into the hangar to dope the fabric and no one will notice that you've been gone a long time until you come stumbling out with your eyes counter-rotating in their sockets, looking like Timothy Leary on a bad weekend because you breathed the fumes from that crap.

Not to mention that in addition to all the other aircraft ownership headaches, you now have a ride that makes a bilge pump a useful piece of gear.

"Hey! My airplane sunk!"

I don't know. That Baron G58 could be awfully comfortable and relatively trouble-free...

Cheers!

Rick...

It's also not piston.