Goodbye to the Fargo? So Soon?

So, not surprisingly, my partner wants to sell the Fargo. He hates it. Or her. I haven't decided if she's got a gender or not, oh, look at that, I gave her one. Either way, he hates her and wants to get rid of her. He refuses to finish his training on her, or, he refuses to finish his training altogether. Now that he's got his licence I think he's a little reluctant to hop back into a plane and take instruction from someone younger than him (that's putting it nicely, I think). So, he is going to buy himself a Maule (a much cooler, faster, more powerful taildragger) and needs to sell the Fargo to do so. Leaving me wondering exactly what I'm going to do.

It's not that I love the Fargo myself, but she's a good enough little plane. Yes, she's small, and you feel rather lame taxiing onto the tarmac in such a dinky little plane, but she's still a plane. She lifts off and flies through the air, and she was rather affordable. I'm not sure if I can afford another plane at the moment. And do I even want to?

I would love a bush plane. Something that I can fly out to my sister-in-law's house and land in the field nearby. Something that can climb at twice the speed of the Fargo. Something that can land in an airport but also land in a remote airstrip by a lake that only a few pilots can get to. But to do that, I need to be able to fly a taildragger, and after my experience with the Falcon, I know I'm very far from that. Not that it isn't possible, just not at the moment.

So, do I keep the Fargo? It can't really get me anywhere. Of if it can, very, very slowly. But, if I ever wanted to get my instructing and open a flight school here, it would be rather handy to have. But I'd have to be able to fly to the school for training, something I don't think would be very fun in the Fargo. On the other hand, it's a training plane and I'm not yet done my training, so I should probably keep it until that point where I'm done. But then I have to buy out my partner. And, I have to say, the Fargo isn't exactly the healthiest of planes. So I'm scared I'm going to buy him out and then have to overhaul the engine. An engine that is rather gutless in the first place. I have to admit, I wish you could buy a "chip" for your plane as you can for your truck, to improve it's power and performance. If I could just get some more horsepower out of the Fargo, I'd be pretty happy, but then, she'd have to be able to carry enough fuel to compensate for the hp.

Who would have thought buying a plane would be so complicated!