Like a lot of aircraft owners, I have my list of airplane expenses divided into ‘gotta-do’ and ‘wanna-do’ items. And also like a lot of owners, I schedule annual inspections during the winter. So the holiday season is when I start revisiting the improvements I’d like to make on my venerable V-tail Bonanza. I won’t bore you with my lengthy list of wanna-do stuff; but suffice to say, the gotta-do list has done a good job of monopolizing most of my budget for the past several years.
It’s still fun to dream, however, and with enough rationalization, I can manage to nudge some of my wish list into my ‘mandatory for safety-of-flight’ category. Kind of like a kid who convinces his parents that he JUST HAS to have X-Box Kinect.
