Let's say you win a gigantic windfall...

[mekender]

I would just hire Chris to deal with the details...

[Termite]

Great bird, but we've got two kids, with a 3rd on the way. I need a six place.
I actually want two planes. A six place turbine single as the hauler and a combination "sports car" and "commmuter plane".

With money as no object, it would be hard to beat a Pilatus PC-12 as the "family hauler".

As for a "sports car/commuter", a Pilatus PC-9 or Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano would be shit-hot fun; again, money being no object.

[Mike OTDP]

As for a "sports car/commuter", a Pilatus PC-9 or Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano would be shit-hot fun; again, money being no object.

I got a hop in a regular Tucano once. Very nice, but I'd prefer a Canadair Tutor. It's a dazzling machine in the air.

[Rod]

Hire Chris to help me plan. Get permission from Kim to use The Nation of Riflemen as an LLC devoted to shooting sports and charitable works. Wife and I are the officers. Pay all debts for my immediate family and set up trusts for son, daughter, brother, brother in law, nieces and nephews. Find a place for my 2000 acre home. Drop off the grid, to include deleting as much public information on the internet as possible. Take Thunder Ranch and various other training sessions, build a gun house (not a gun safe or gun room).

[MelodyByrne]

With money as no object, it would be hard to beat a Pilatus PC-12 as the "family hauler".

As for a "sports car/commuter", a Pilatus PC-9 or Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano would be shit-hot fun; again, money being no object.

Time being no object as well. Any idea how much maintenance a Pilatus needs, and how much tends to go wrong with them?

The most almost-swearing I've ever heard from my father was directly due to a Pilatus. The annual inspection on the beast took 3 months, with his time spent roughly equally between the poor Pilatus and 2 other planes. At least a month of that time was just finding parts and waiting for the parts to ship.

He had to replace the motor mount, pull the wings off and replace the center section of the spar, and replace and re-run the control cables. All issues he found doing the annual, and all good reason to fail an inspection. Keep in mind he's an A&P and an inspection authority with 48 years of experience. He normally works 60+ hours a week and it still took him 3 months.

The owner was NOT happy.

[Netpackrat]

He should have sent the owner of the Pilatus up here to Alaska on a ferry permit. There are guys up here who will sign off an annual without having even looked at the plane.

[MelodyByrne]

He should have sent the owner of the Pilatus up here to Alaska on a ferry permit. There are guys up here who will sign off an annual without having even looked at the plane.

Given that the Pilatus was purchased by the client a month after the previous annual inspection (and based his decisions on that annual), I have no doubt that there are IA's out there signing off on annuals they haven't actually completed.

The idea of doing that is so foreign to my father, it's not even on the same planet. If anything went wrong after one of his inspections and a plane fell out of the sky due to something he missed, he would commit seppuku.

[Rod]

Okay, who won? I didn't even get ONE number.

[arctictom]

Won a small deal few years back, paid taxes first gave the mrs half, invested my half every body's happy.
Big numbers like 20 m plus , taxes, the Mrs gets a piece, off shore trust for a majority, I get a custom double rifle every body is happy.
I am very predictible , and money does not dictate my behaviour, commitments to family and friends do.

[Steamforger]

Headed back to the office in the morning. No Bearcat for me