My first year of membership in DiamondShare is almost over. And as the end of my one-year lease approaches, I have an important choice to make: stick with the shared-lease program or find some other way to fly.
My introduction to the DiamondShare experience was somewhat unusual in that I was handed the keys to the gleaming new airplane – a Diamond DA40 XLS with the latest-software version of the Garmin G1000 cockpit – a few days before the birth of my first child last January. Having a newborn and a new airplane are both wonderful, life-changing experiences, but they don’t always mesh well, especially when exhaustion from 3 a.m. feedings makes flying the next day out of the question.
