Thread: I can dream..

of an L39.



You can pick up a good one for $250k. Its the running costs which make me wince.. and you only get 6 years or 800 hours on an engine BO.

IFR quiped but the idea of burning along VFR between the clouds around 17 000 agl @ 300 kts sounds sweet.. (shame about the 550 litres per hour burn rate at cruse).

Still, this is for dreaming

Originally Posted by d3syd

Excuse my ignorance, but who makes L39s? It's obviously some sort of training jet.

Aero Vodochody, A Czech company make them as trainers for many countries. If someone is after a civvy jet fighter, they are pretty hard to beat.

More info https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._L-39_Albatros.

There are a many of them in private hands, I think about 6 in Australia. The Jet fighter joy flights at the Hunter Valley use them.. but its a pretty expensive way to spend 20-35 min in the cockpit.

Originally Posted by clean32

VFR at A17 will not happen

Quiet you. Stop bringing reality into this.


Just imagine being up there, BKN just darting in and out of the gaps.

Originally Posted by clean32

traing jet sure untill you start to attach some thing to the hard points.

They are also used as light strike..

Considering how many have been de-armed and recert'd as civvy A/C there must be many weapon systems gathering dust in the back of eastern European hangars....

hmmmm