Solution to GA dying?

[saracelica]

Went out to eat for lunch today. Brought along a "Flying" magazine since I was eating by myself. I had the waitress ask me what I was reading; I showed her and she said "Oh that looks like fun tell me more" I'm not sure if she really was interested (and wanted a better tip) or she never considered it. So maybe more people should be reading the Flying magazines (sure are enough of them in circulation) and advertise it that way.

<Let the opinions come out>

 

[Jim Logajan]

Dollars per hour seems to be a valid way to measure the cost of pleasure value.

Dollars per mile seems to be a valid way to measure the cost of travel value.

The cost per mile for an average car is somewhere between $0.47 to $0.74.
(http://www.piercetransit.org/rideshare/costs.htm)

The cost per mile for your rental or owned airplane is ... ?

(My airport has 152 and 172 airplanes for $95 and $125 an hour, so can cost about $1.00 per mile, absent the proverbial 20 kt headwind.)

 

[Jim Logajan]

I guess I didn't make my point well. We're lookign to lower cost of GA, right? How about a non-certified Lycoming made just for the Experimental market? I am wondering what that would sell for.

Lycoming does make non-certified engines for experimentals and Van's Aircraft sells them for a few thousand less than the certified counterparts:

http://www.vansaircraft.com/cgi-bin/catalog.cgi?ident=1321897449-390-723&browse=engines&product=lycoming2

The certified equivalents:

http://www.vansaircraft.com/cgi-bin/catalog.cgi?ident=1321897449-390-723&browse=engines&product=lycoming