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Neil Gould wrote:
Recently, Mxsmanic posted: Neil Gould writes: A lot of this depends on the individual. I doubt that Jay's family would agree with you that their aircraft is impractical as transportation. I don't understand the notion that it is a problem that one is "still most likely to have to rent a car"; so what? Because if you take a car somewhere, you don't have to rent a plane to finish the trip. Again, I say, "so what?" It's a non-issue, because if you fly commercially, you *still* have to rent a car to get around. But in cases where you *would* take a car, you wouldn't need one. Weather limitations are greatly over-rated. As others have pointed out, the inconvenience of waiting out weather can be less than an hour, and most of the time less than a day. When the meeting is at 10 AM, that's a show-stopper. People who "must be there" at a particular time miss a lot of meetings, regardless of their mode of transportation. But you're much more likely to miss it if you're depending on GA. The commercial flight can generally be relied upon; the GA flight cannot. Commercial aviation has spent decades and billions of dollars to ensure that airliners can fly in all but the worst weather. That is not my experience at all. Within the last 5 months, my wife and I have missed connecting flights due to airline issues 2 out of 2 times. I have yet to miss my arrival times flying GA. I haven't missed a connecting flight for about the last 20 times I've flown commercially. On average, many more people make their connecting flights than not. As for GA, I've been trying to make a trip for two weeks now, but haven't been able due to weather. If I had needed to, I could have made the trip in a car and been back home the same day two weeks ago. I put it off because I'm using it as an excuse to fly - which I believe is what most GA pilots probably do. |
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