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[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

If you're ok with living in the middle of nowhere, then it's entirely doable. Some folks just have different priorities.

For instance, here is a property in Yucca Valley, CA that has a hanger in the backyard, where you can head out right on the runway from your yard. Just under $300k. There's an entire street of houses that are adjacent to the runway of a small municipal airstrip, I think they call them fly in/fly out communities. They're often well off the beaten path, but you don't have to pay for storage when you have a hanger out back.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/57544-Sunnyslope-Dr-Yucca-Valley-CA-92284/17496243_zpid/

[-] alp@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago

I'm not saying that those deals are bad, but we are still talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars, where a sim setups is 30k or 40k at most.

[-] Cornpop@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Dude I have a mortgage. I put 25k down on the property. I rent out the house and 3 spots in the hangar. I get enough income from rent on the property to pay the mortgage and have profit on top every month. I’m not a rich by any means. But I live comfortably enough.

[-] alp@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago

I mean, I hope you get rich mate! Yeah I understand your point, and I am also definitely happy that affordable aviation is not a multimillionaire only dream. Though still those simulations are maybe 5 percent of the costs we are talking, yet :(

[-] Cornpop@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Yea I’m in FL in a small town. If you want to live in a big city aircraft ownership is on a whole different level of cost.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You have to have the kind of life and professional occupation which is compatible with living in such a place.

Not many people have or are willing to change their lives in order to be able to fly regularly on a real plane like that. It's like people who chose to live on a boat and sail around the World (doable, if you adjust your whole life to it and have the skill to work in the kind of occupation compatible with it).

Meanwhile a setup like the one on the picture is a lot easier to work into one's life, even living in appartment in the middle of a city and with a 9-to-5 regular Joe job.

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