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Road trip!

Thursday 20 March 2025
FlyingOwning a plane

We made up our minds and decided to start searching for “our” Robin DR400. Time to power on the computer and browse to “PlaneCheck” to find out what’s available out there. There were a few Robins that got our attention and we contacted the sellers for additional information; some didn’t bother to respond; others came with a short “it’s already sold” response. It’s clear that we need to act fast when a new plane is put up for sale!

Then Bas warned us: even when everything looks great on paper and on the website, once you stand next to the plane, you may find that you either love or hate it. We need to get on the road and start to visit some of these beauties.

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Go for it?

Sunday 16 February 2025
FlyingOwning a plane

The financial analysis we did back in October made clear what we already suspected: owning a plane isn’t cheap. But having the numbers on your screen in a spreadsheet was confronting and made us wonder if we were willing to put that much money into our hobby.

Some time has passed and we have had some time to think things over. The dark and cold months are behind us, and the good weather is getting closer. At some point we have to stop thinking about it and decide which plane we are going to fly this year. So, let’s have dinner, discuss and see if we can come to a conclusion.

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Can we afford it?

Tuesday 15 October 2024
FlyingOwning a plane

Flying is great fun, but it’s not a cheap hobby. Renting planes from a flying club is usually the best option to keep the cost under control. That is exactly what we have been doing for years.

But there’s a downside to that: the availability of the planes. And that is how we ended up with the idea of buying a plane. Before taking that step, let’s figure out if we can afford it.

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We bought a plane!

Saturday 22 June 2024
FlyingOwning a plane

Yes, we did – really! Let me share how this all started and the journey that led to the actual purchase of the plane and how I moved from renting the PH-VTB to (partially) owning the F-GSBM.

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Dev Containers Fail Fast

Friday 27 October 2023
Dev ContainersLinuxPodmanWSL 2

I started to experiment with Development Containers using Podman. The Linux system setup by the podman machine init command was so basic that things like git were not installed. So, let’s install git to find out that another thing was missing and a setting had to be changed an yet another one and and another one.

And finally, things still fail… Time for another approach: replace the Podman installed and configured Linux system with another one that comes with Windows/WSL integration.

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