Lear 40/45 would be one Heckuva an elevator ride MC! Sams right on with the avionics but if that’s no issue and you can reasonably get ADSb out then it’s all about operational costs/insurance. Better be sure you want/need the added costs. Something not always considered in the cost area is that our singles get charged Mucho lower fees in those expensive airport stops in and around big cities..

We need another tread for the Lear Michael, totally different ball game.
You have your copilot and if you can swing it,







Lear 40/45 would be one Heckuva an elevator ride MC! Sams right on with the avionics but if that’s no issue and you can reasonably get ADSb out then it’s all about operational costs/insurance. Better be sure you want/need the added costs. Something not always considered in the cost area is that our singles get charged Mucho lower fees in those expensive airport stops in and around big cities..

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quite staggering when you really get to looking at them. Any jet for that matter. You can figure $2000/hour IF you fly it about 300 hrs a year for a Lear. M2 or 100 certainly a little less.

That is an ideal situation for which there are many more options than a Lear 45. How about an XLS?

I'd rather have a Pilatus, or a Cirrus Jet.........


$0.02

Simplicity trumps all. Easy to own. Easy to fly. Effective. Efficient.

$600,000 / yr flying budget. Yes that's quite staggering. Absolutely eye-watering.
However there are those that spend far greater and $600K / yr probably seems like chump change to them.

I remember when I first started flying (and was broke) thinking about having to spend $20K / yr for flying seemed outrageous and unobtainable to me. I used to dream about having that kind of money to be able to fly regularly.

Now I spend 6X that and it doesn't seem like much to me but looking at turbine options and spending $200K-250K / yr seems outrageous now.

It's just remarkable how everything changes based on your perspective.

+10, Don.

The LAW of perceptual relativity!

That's really not the debate..... The debate is "how much more would you spend to save X hours IF those hours could truly be saved"?

That extra 100 knots costs.........

I have non pilot friends that own big 2 pilot jets and all still will go fly commercial if they're flying alone etc. rather than spend the money. I never fly commercial.

That's really not the debate..... The debate is "how much more would you spend to save X hours IF those hours could truly be saved"?

That extra 100 knots costs.........

Are you counting the 3 weeks of type rating in your 100 hours?

As I've already stated in this thread...... I believe the 100 hour savings is pure fiction. I don't count "flight time". I count "door to door time".

Are you counting the 3 weeks of type rating in your 100 hours?

As I've already stated in this thread...... I believe the 100 hour savings is pure fiction. I don't count "flight time". I count "door to door time".

That's fine but it more than vaporizes the fictional "100 hours a year savings".

No different than spending 3 weeks doing your own annual but claiming it only cost you $1500. I don't care if you love working on your airplane.... your time still costs $$.

That's fine but it more than vaporizes the fictional "100 hours a year savings".

No different than spending 3 weeks doing your own annual but claiming it only cost you $1500. I don't care if you love working on your airplane.... your time still costs $$.

That's thinking like an individual, not a company. Nearly all these jets are owned by corporations. 600k /yr is probably 5 fully weighted employees. The companies that buy these jets likely have a few hundred employees at least. It's all paid with pretax money and deducted.