From rhirving at gmail.com Sun Dec 6 16:28:08 2009 From: rhirving at gmail.com (Bob Irving) Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 16:28:08 -0500 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <000001ca76bb$0195d900$04c18b00$@com> I have decided not to pursue renewal of my medical so it will be LSA only for me. Have not yet flown the Gobosh at So Maine Aviation but may try for it this week. Bob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.workingcode.com/pipermail/eefc-core/attachments/20091206/e3b3d9b6/attachment.html From carlsonj at workingcode.com Mon Dec 7 08:11:51 2009 From: carlsonj at workingcode.com (James Carlson) Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:11:51 -0500 Subject: In-Reply-To: <000001ca76bb$0195d900$04c18b00$@com> References: <000001ca76bb$0195d900$04c18b00$@com> Message-ID: <4B1CFF17.9070207@workingcode.com> Bob Irving wrote: > I have decided not to pursue renewal of my medical so it will be LSA > only for me. Have not yet flown the Gobosh at So Maine Aviation but may > try for it this week. Best of luck to you. Despite the limitations, those LSAs do look like fun. And thanks for getting back to us with the update. I know it's a difficult and time-consuming effort to go through. OK; that means we now know that there are just three of us actively interested in purchasing a regular GA airplane. A cap of $45K is a bit tight in getting something that we'll all be happy with, so we have a couple of things we can consider now: - We can solicit on eefc-interest to see if there are others willing to step up. - We can explore what financing the balance will do to our monthly cost. Any opinions? (And are there lurkers now who'd be interested in taking a more active role?) -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W From toddmbs at yahoo.com Mon Dec 7 12:09:22 2009 From: toddmbs at yahoo.com (Todd Brooks) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 09:09:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: In-Reply-To: <4B1CFF17.9070207@workingcode.com> Message-ID: <922761.71175.qm@web111315.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Well that's too bad Bob.? At least you'll stay up in the air. I guess this pretty much corners us into limited options. The first being financing - I think we'll just have to do financing, if and when we ever pick a good plane for the money.? The best angle is probably going to be to start simple and just get the plane, then market it as a club to get a few more members to help pay for it. One would think that prices would be better in the winter - but of course I've never bought an air plane before. Have we found any good planes yet? Todd --- On Mon, 12/7/09, James Carlson wrote: From: James Carlson Subject: Re: To: "Eagle East Flying Club Core Team" Date: Monday, December 7, 2009, 8:11 AM Bob Irving wrote: > I have decided not to pursue renewal of my medical so it will be LSA > only for me. Have not yet flown the Gobosh at So Maine Aviation? but may > try for it this week. Best of luck to you.? Despite the limitations, those LSAs do look like fun. And thanks for getting back to us with the update.? I know it's a difficult and time-consuming effort to go through. OK; that means we now know that there are just three of us actively interested in purchasing a regular GA airplane.? A cap of $45K is a bit tight in getting something that we'll all be happy with, so we have a couple of things we can consider now: ? - We can solicit on eefc-interest to see if there are others willing ? ? to step up. ? - We can explore what financing the balance will do to our monthly ? ? cost. Any opinions?? (And are there lurkers now who'd be interested in taking a more active role?) -- James Carlson? ? ? ???42.703N 71.076W? ? ? ??? _______________________________________________ eefc-core mailing list eefc-core at workingcode.com https://www.workingcode.com/mailman/listinfo/eefc-core -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.workingcode.com/pipermail/eefc-core/attachments/20091207/284f7a5b/attachment.html From carlsonj at workingcode.com Mon Dec 7 12:52:54 2009 From: carlsonj at workingcode.com (James Carlson) Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:52:54 -0500 Subject: In-Reply-To: <922761.71175.qm@web111315.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <922761.71175.qm@web111315.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4B1D40F6.8060606@workingcode.com> Todd Brooks wrote: > Well that's too bad Bob. At least you'll stay up in the air. > > I guess this pretty much corners us into limited options. The first > being financing - I think we'll just have to do financing, if and when > we ever pick a good plane for the money. The best angle is probably > going to be to start simple and just get the plane, then market it as a > club to get a few more members to help pay for it. I think that's actually a pretty wise approach. We can set a fixed share price (say, $10K or $15K), finance the rest, and then work out a scheme to retire debt and rebalance the shares if/when we add members. I'll run some numbers tonight and post a summary. > One would think that prices would be better in the winter - but of > course I've never bought an air plane before. Have we found any good > planes yet? There are several good ones on the list now. I will update the list again soon (perhaps tonight) and will post on the list when done. As always, if there are others that anyone would like to suggest, just drop me a line. I think the next step, now that we've cleared the issue with Bob and after a list update, is for each of us (you, Bill, me) to post a list of selections. I suggest that we each pick three "I'd want these" planes and three "I would not want these" planes. We can then use those to select just one and contact the seller. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W