MedEwok wrote: For 12 hours/year ownership seems pretty unattractive through the capital investment of buying the plane in the first case. The capital investment is usually ignored on EuroGA discussions about ownership vs renting, but for me it is the single biggest hurdle to ownership. For the 50 – 150k it would take to buy a decent plane I can rent the local C172R for 1000 to 3000 hrs...