Well, voice of experience: fly the hell out of it until he realizes how much it ends up costing. If he’s flying it a lot then you’ll be fine, but lots of guys tend to have the fun wear off once the plane is done. The flying is a pain sometimes, you have to go and plan, then come back….

I’ve found that a lot of the guys who can afford the plane only want it like a toy, or a project. They love the purchase, the shopping, the grind of looking forward to building it, to the point they spend hours every week planning out their roster of unnecessary mods…..then once it’s done their interest wanes. Once the last vortex generator is mounted, the final type C charger wired into the panel installed, the thrill begins to wear off. Before you know it, they get the renewal notice and hear the wife tell them “you’ve hardly flown that thing at all this year! Why not sell it if it’s just costing you $3,500 a month!”

Then they call someone like me to help them offload it, and I con them into buying a bigger, better plane. The process starts anew, them thinking that expanded capability will keep their passions stoked, that a 6-seater would be “big enough to ACTUALLY use!!!” and before you know it they’ve got a $450,000 bushliner on order