When considering which airplane one should fly—whether renting, clubbing, owning or via some other arrangement—a time-honored maxim is to consider your mission and use one that’s most suitable. Since it’s never that simple, such an answer usually elicits a big “duh” from the questioner.
It would be nice to have one airplane to meet all of our possible mission needs and wants: nonstop range, a solid IFR platform, something that can land on water more than once or go upside down legally. Instead, the reality is we often adapt the mission to the airplane.
