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From: Jim Seifert jseifertjr@...>

Subject: Re: [Country-Coach-Owners] 2000 Affinity for sale

Date: April 15, 2016 at 1:09:26 PM CDT

To: Country-Coach-Owners@yahoogroups.com

I loved the 310. At the time my missions were 500 - 600 miles and all weather all year. I was based in Northern MN and (because of the northern latitude) did a lot of night flying. I wanted the redundency of the 2nd engine, turbonormalized, lots of power and known ice. I used it all. Added bonus was I could load up the family, the dog, car seats, golf clubs and full fuel and still have plenty of gross wt and cg to work with. I flew it for about 1100 hours. I downsized to a 210 when the kids started moving out and it was just mostly my wife and I and I wasn't using the plane for business so I had a lot more weather flexibility. The 210 was turbonormalized and deiced as well. I did lots of IFR flying but not low IFR and not at night with the single engine. I know lots of people that do, but its just not my bag. I sold the plane when I was only flying 30 or 40 hours a year which I think is insufficient for good IFR proficiency. Going slow in the coach is a lot more fun at this stage in the game. From day one (Ive been a pilot for almost 30 years) was to quit before statistics caught up with me. We knew that we wanted a coach and would travel a great deal - so having a plane sitting in the hanger made no sense. There may be a light sport or a cub in the future though