That one isn't mine. I try to make sure all my aircraft are up and operational.wmburns wrote:Just wondering if N534RM currently at 2CA3 is yours? Are you aware that it is down for maintenance? How does that work on a lease return?Marcus Becker wrote:My biggest purchase (turned out to be the biggest money pit) was the Jetstream41. I had to get creative with getting some return on my investment. I wasn't flying it and neither was anybody else. I dropped the rental rate to where I was breaking even and posted an advertisement in the FSE forums with no takers. Then I thought of the idea of holding an auction for a short term lease. It brought some interest and income. I think I'm going to do it again as the lease expires in a couple weeks.
When I first started flying on FSE my main aircraft was the JS41. I made a TON of v$'s running a routes around KCLT. At the time that was the only location I could find that had enough jobs to fill the JS41 (29 PAX). Even then it was a lot of work to find the right route and PAX combinations to make it work. My goal was to earn enough v$'s to buy my own JS41.
Of course at the time I thought 800k was a ton of v$'s. However, it would seem that anyone with 7 aircraft included a very expensive airplane, 800k doesn't really seem like a ton compared to others.
Fast forward to today. Almost never fly the JS41 anymore. The reasons are varied. Some home sim set up related. Some X-plane vs FSE related. Some stability related. Some personal goals related.
It's too bad there isn't a high quality X-Plane version of the JS41. I'm spoiled by PMDG quality.
The X-Plane JS32 just doesn't do it for me. Seems like there are just too many "issues" with how it alters the X-plane axis.
FSE really is a desert with islands of activity.
Trust me when I say that buying that JS41 took every v-penny I had and then some. I took out a loan and flew that thing a ton to pay it off. I got burned out on it and started renting it out and the thing hasn't been rented more than a half dozen times in over a year. Oh well. I don't even have 1/4 of the cash in hand that it took to purchase. I'll get back there some day.