Still the Question

Kreisha Ballantyne is one of the most recognisable aviation writers in Australia. With experience writing for several aviation titles, Kreisha has a broad base of experience, an ability to tap into important general aviation issues and a talent for expressing in simple terms what everyone is thinking. An active pilot, she lives and loves aviation.

When I wrote my last column “To Buy or Not to Buy, That is the Question” [Australian Flying November-December 2020], I had no idea of the response it would illicit. From my years of getting out and about at air shows, I knew aviators were a passionate mob, but I’m pleasantly surprised by the vim with which readers wrote to me extolling the pleasures of ownership.

“Your accountant is wrong!” announced an aircraft-owning friend via Messenger the day the magazine hit the stands. “Sometimes, an