Owning your own aircraft for flight training and building flight hours can be wildly rewarding, but it also comes with risks.
Airline captain Sam Weigel shares his experience of owning a 1953 Piper Pacer while he was building hours early on and how he navigated an unexpected turn of events.
“Thinking back to the years when I was training and time building, I did not have $20,000 to lose,” Weigel said. “Such a financial setback might have killed my career before it even got started.”
