shoot, looking up a plane ticket on the internet takes me longer to do then my flight
planning.
My flight planning consists of basically punching it into duats, printing it out, going
to my plane, punching it into my GPS and away I go.

when I fly to los angeles, it takes about 4-5 hours depending on traffic, I can fly to LA
in 1:15 . No headaches because of traffic. Like today, a bad accident on i-15 near
barstow, 4 dead, highway closed untill at least 10pm tonight (what the news said).


You have to include your flight planning time, as well as door-to-door
time when comparing flying somewhere to driving there, for example. I
take a lot of flights around 100nm, and quite frankly I don't think in
any of them I saved any time over driving when I honestly account for
ALL the time the flight took, including planning and preparation. But I
still do it because I love to fly.

I figure that will change when I start flying longer distances.