My current use would be to visit the girlfriend who now lives about a 13 hour drive (4 hr flight) on the other side of the mountains. Having a plane would make it feasible to fly down every other weekend or so, plus trips to weekend vacation spots which would mean 100-200 hours per year probably for at least the first few years. Typical load would just be two adults, maybe three if I take some friends out.
Insurance is one cost that worries me since I’m a low time airplane guy but I have plenty of helicopter time so could hopefully catch a break on that. And I do have research tax costs on my to do list. I’ll likely be buying in the EU so it’ll be interesting at least to figure sales/use taxes.
Brian