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ElyJs · January 14th, 2007, 15:53

I finally read up and saw that you were concerned with maintaining the plane. Well if you stay simple and stay away from retract, turbos and the like it will remain easy. You have an opposed 4 cylinder with fixed gear and fixed pitch prop, there really isn't that much too it. I have had some minor issues with my plane (leak on the nose strut etc) but luckily haven't had anything a few hundred bucks couldn't fix. You can change your own oil, you just need someone to show you the safety wire stuff, otherwise its basically the same as a car. Pray the avionics don't fry and you will be fine. A cessna 172 is the most popular training plane for a reason. Easy and cheap to maintain and operate.

-Jason

January 14th, 2007, 15:53	#37
ElyJs Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Boulder, Colorado Posts: 279	Re: Question on age vs. debt to start flight training... I finally read up and saw that you were concerned with maintaining the plane. Well if you stay simple and stay away from retract, turbos and the like it will remain easy. You have an opposed 4 cylinder with fixed gear and fixed pitch prop, there really isn't that much too it. I have had some minor issues with my plane (leak on the nose strut etc) but luckily haven't had anything a few hundred bucks couldn't fix. You can change your own oil, you just need someone to show you the safety wire stuff, otherwise its basically the same as a car. Pray the avionics don't fry and you will be fine. A cessna 172 is the most popular training plane for a reason. Easy and cheap to maintain and operate. -Jason