This is proof that pilot community is made of dorks, most guys fantasize about banging hot chicks.
I think your numbers are close but a little light in some areas and heavy in others. If you're going to make a go of it, you're going to need more plane than $30k will buy you unless you're extremely lucky. However you won't need a hangar. Nice to have, but not required. The plane can sit outside and one $2k 48' container will hold all your equipment. Allowing $4k for mx including annual on a banner plane is a fantasy at best unless you hold an A&P cert and can do nearly everything yourself.at least 100,000. Plane maybe 25k-30k. Insurance 5k a year. Hangar to store airplane and equipment another 30k. Probally 5k at least in equipment. Figure oh 4k a year for maintence including annual. Then there will be extra cost. Advertising, busniess lincese, I would imagine you have to hava a operators license from the faa. Its not cheap that for sure.
You know how to make a small fortune in aviation, right????
Just fantasizing in my head. How much do you think it would cost to start a banner tow company from scratch? Including not having the plane yet.
You know how to make a small fortune in aviation, right????
This is proof that pilot community is made of dorks, most guys fantasize about banging hot chicks.
If you need an employee, I'd work in exchange for a negotiable amount of time in the airplane![]()
If you need an employee, I'd work in exchange for a negotiable amount of time in the airplane![]()
If you need an employee, I'd work in exchange for a negotiable amount of time in the airplane![]()
that was the wrong thing to say.
And there my friends is why pilots work for $20,000 a year.
Oye that's rough. I always hate to see that happen. One of the tricks I've seen guys do is to identify which local business' are in tight competition with one another and do advertising of some sort. Car dealers, bars, restaurants, that sort of thing. Then you approach one of them and get them under contract to fly at way under your cost. Make it so cheap they can't say no. Once you're flying and they're getting results, you go to their competition and sell them a full rate contract to fly 'because the other guy is flying'. Its a risky way to get started but I've seen it work.He soon learned how damn expense that banner equipment was and how hard it was to find new clients in a area that no one towed banners. Hes still trying though. I just saw him the other day flying a banner advertising his own banner tow busniess. Thats the only banner I ever seen him fly though lol.