What is your favorite low budget plane?

[EIR]

You're a dentist?

That was the 70's & 80's; now the straight tail Dr. killers are Cirrus.

 

[N18040]

I'd then spend the leftover $30,000 on non-aviation pursuits...

Forget the 150, get a Piper Tomahawk instead. You get similar performance with a larger cockpit, much better visibility, and its easier to get in and out of too.

 

[ctab5060X]

You don't have to do anything. The wood spars planes already go for a good bit less. A 7ECA just basic vfr is not really that expensive at all, especially with wood wings.

Thank you American Champion...

Their push for the spar AD cost as much as a 25% reduction in aircraft value for older wood spar equipped airplanes. Thankfully, the older Citabrias did somewhat maintain their value with only a slight reduction.

1969 7KCAB (that sat outside) - $126/hr wet. Wood spar. San Francisco Bay Area (north).
1974 7ECA - $89/hr wet. Metal spar. San Francisco Bay Area (east).
2001 7ECA - $99/hr wet. Metal spar. San Francisco Bay Area (east).
1973 7GCAA - $90/hr wet. Wood spar. San Diego Area.

I hope I didn't make myself look like a complete moron with my previous posts here on the wood vs. aluminum spars. This thread made me do a lot of critical thinking and as long as I could afford to hangar it I don't think I'd have any aversion to owning a wood-wing airplane at all.

Not too bad on the prices... I'll have to check, but most of those are cheaper than a 152 in my area.

Try out both the 7ECA and the 7GCAA. Basically the same airplane but different engines. The 7ECA is 115 hp vs the 7GCAA at 150 hp.


You didn't come across a moron at all... just one of the "uneducated"

 

[ctab5060X]

I'd then spend the leftover $30,000 on non-aviation pursuits...

Forget the 150, get a Piper Tomahawk instead. You get similar performance with a larger cockpit, much better visibility, and its easier to get in and out of too.

eh... get something you are going to have FUN flying!

 

[N18040]

eh... get something you are going to have FUN flying!

Oh I totally agree. I have some time in a Citabria, and have to say it is one of the most enjoyable planes I have time in. Its definitely more fun than a 150 or the Tomahawk for sure.

 

[Adler]

S35

at-least get an E33B

 

[FlyingScot]

Forget the 150, get a Piper Tomahawk instead. You get similar performance with a larger cockpit, much better visibility, and its easier to get in and out of too.

Not if you live in the South. I had to fly one in Austin TX in summer. I felt like an ant under a magnifying glass.

 

[mshunter]

Ive had an aileron jam at full deflection because of this. I perfer the aluminum spar on a Decathlon (I have a lot of acro time in wood & metal) For competiton aerobatics, it just feels more responsive.

I remember that day. Little wuss wouldn't get back in the airplane after that! Grow a pair!:bandit:

 

[WacoFan]

Not if you live in the South. I had to fly one in Austin TX in summer. I felt like an ant under a magnifying glass.

+1

This is the only area where the 150 seems better to me than the Traumahawk. All my T-hawk time was spent in Houston, mostly going between DWH and HOU and various small airports around the Houston Metro - so I never got to climb to cooler altitudes and in the summer the greenhouse effect could be brutal.

 

[O&M]

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