Having a nice Cessna Turbo Skylane or even an older Beechcraft Queen Air would be awfully nice too...
With the advances in ballistic recovery systems even for larger business jets, the probability of high speed dirt poisoning from engine failure is mitigated quite nicely.
I like the PAL-V, in concept; we’ll have to wait and see what reality makes of it. An unnamed bureaucrat somewhere doubtless has a spanner in their desk drawer with which to foul up the works.
Now, if we can find him in time, we can blast him before he can do any damage.
Obviously, my position is that bureaucrats ought to be listed as a game species.