Believe me, I feel that pain. ;0(
Even in my lowly 172 at 8 gallons/hour, with AvGas between $4.50 and $5.00 it makes you hesitate to fly - even if you can find the time. Not that long ago I was spending a lot more on hangar rent ($140/month) than fuel. Now, it's completely reversed and up here where a VFR day is a rarity, I only fly about 70 hours/year.
I seriously do not know how Cessna can sell any new 172's. At a starting price of $160,000, who can buy them?
bcnu,
Mikem
It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
