Should I fly in a small Cessna?  Notify me of new responses I am
considering booking a trip to the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador
in December--the only catch is, to get there I will have to fly
in a 3- or 5-seat Cessna for about 40 minutes. I have never
flown in a plane like this and am a bit nervous.  I asked for
more details about the plane and pilot, and I was told that the
planes are "kind of old but they have all the permissions and
licenses necessary to operate." As for the pilots, "they fly at
least one time a day." They also said that they've been
operating these flights for 10 years and have never had an
incident.  Would you book this trip? Are there any other
questions I should ask about the plane or  -- Trey Hollis,
October 22, 2010   No question that staying home and watching TV
is safer. On the other hand, a guy who flies the same route
every day is probably not going to get into too much trouble
with either the weather or the runways. Old Cessnas are more or
less bomb-proof. The charter operator w