Flaps on take-off and landing

Thomas Borchert writes:

Compared to what?

A car.

First, 800$, assuming 100 $ per hour, would take you 900 kilometers in
four hours travel time. If that's your kind of weekend trip, I'm sure
you can afford it.

Often the destination is what's important, not the distance. And the
distance would be more like 640 km in a private plane, all things
considered. That's about enough to get from San Diego to Los Angeles
and back--hardly a great distance, at least by USA standards.

Who pays for the gas?

Also, there are four people aboard, so you're talking about 200 per
person for a trip from, say, Paris, to Barcelona, Florence, Prague or
Majorca. Still expensive? I didn't think so.

Who said there would be four people aboard?

For argument's sake, let's assume I lived in Paris (I really live in
Hamburg, not that far). A typical weekend flying trip would take me to
London, the Channel Islands or the Loire valley. Trips of less than two
hours, all. Or 400 $, for the whole plane. Try getting to the Channel
Islands in two hours from Paris by any other mode of transportation,
for 100 $ per person, on your own schedule.

I can get to London much more quickly on the Eurostar, for less money.

Clearly, you'd have to have a lot of money and a desire to fly for the
sake of flying in order to do this.

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