• dustyData@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    No matter how expensive a home sim you make, it won’t ever get be even a quarter of what an actual entry amateur plane costs to buy and maintain. It’s not even the plane itself either, it’s all the recurring costs like storage, maintenance, spare parts, fuel, certification fees, taxes, etc. The only cheap flight option for a recreational pilot is bushcraft light planes. And they will still cost more than the sim setup, while you’ll only be able to fly it on certain places, during certain weather, at certain times of the year. The rest of the time you’ll still have to pay all the storage and maintenance fees. Planes are incredibly expensive.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah, you’ll be able to actually use it when life allows you, vs restructuring your whole life around being able to fly.

      Now we just need one for where millionaires think their work is saving the world. Apparently the city building sims aren’t sufficient.