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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Minimum 20k for an 40 year old Cessna 150 with not many miles left in the engine before mandatory overhaul (roughly every 10,000 hours of use, though it depends on the engine), last I checked.

Then those things require regular mechanical check-ups, and by regular I mean every 50 hours of flight, then a more thorough one every 100 hours of flight and so on.

It's only a "cheap" hobby if you're doing it as an amateur pilot who can also do the mechanical stuff and only flies in a country where regulations are de facto optional to follow.

Otherwise it's at best a hobby for doctors, finance traders and high paid lawyers, not Common Joe.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

roughly every 10,000 hours of use, though it depends on the engine

Overhaul period for a Lycoming piston engine is typically 1800-2200 hours. You'd be lucky if the engine even made it to 10k.