Fighting the high cost of flying

Matt Whiting wrote:
As a pilot for the past 10 years, I would like to justify flying as a
mode of transportation, but I don't see how.


Take longer trips!


Damned hard to drive to the Bahamas.



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

Mortimer Schnerd, RN writes:

Damned hard to drive to the Bahamas.

Difficult to fly there, too, in a small aircraft. It's a seven-hour flight
non-stop from Buffalo, much of it over water.

Matt Whiting writes:

Take longer trips!

Justifying it requires making it economical for the trips one wishes to take,
not finding trips that will make it seem economical.

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Matt Whiting writes:

Take longer trips!

Justifying it requires making it economical for the trips one wishes
to take, not finding trips that will make it seem economical.


Proving yet again, Anthony, that you're a moron.

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Matt Whiting writes:

Take longer trips!

Justifying it requires making it economical for the trips one wishes
to take, not finding trips that will make it seem economical.


Nope.


Bertie

"Andrew Sarangan" wrote in message
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Just having returned from a 400NM trip, I have to say there are other
reasons besides fuel cost that is against GA. Today's automobiles have
come a long way in comfort, speed and convenience. The same level of
comfort only exists in airplanes that cost several million bucks.

The 95F heat this afternoon made the 10 minute taxi and run-up feel
like an eternity. Even with the cabin fan at full blast we were
suffocating by the time we took off. Then there was the 30 knots
headwind all the way, which increased the trip time by a full hour.
Even with ANR, the noise was physically draining. Now combine this
with a 2-year old in the back seat. I find it is impossible to justify
to your family that this is better way of traveling.

I could not see my family suffer through this ordeal, so I stopped at
an airport and rented a brand new Toyota Prius and told them to drive
it home, one of the best decision I have made in a long time. It was
definitely longer than flying, but it was way more comfy and cost far
less than flying. Next time I have decided to drive for family trips.


Noise, vibration and temperature.

In the past 40 years, the improvement in the automobile has been remarkable,
in the comparable aircraft, almost no change at all.

"Maxwell" luv2^fly99@cox.^net wrote in
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Just having returned from a 400NM trip, I have to say there are other
reasons besides fuel cost that is against GA. Today's automobiles
have come a long way in comfort, speed and convenience. The same
level of comfort only exists in airplanes that cost several million
bucks.

The 95F heat this afternoon made the 10 minute taxi and run-up feel
like an eternity. Even with the cabin fan at full blast we were
suffocating by the time we took off. Then there was the 30 knots
headwind all the way, which increased the trip time by a full hour.
Even with ANR, the noise was physically draining. Now combine this
with a 2-year old in the back seat. I find it is impossible to
justify to your family that this is better way of traveling.

I could not see my family suffer through this ordeal, so I stopped at
an airport and rented a brand new Toyota Prius and told them to drive
it home, one of the best decision I have made in a long time. It was
definitely longer than flying, but it was way more comfy and cost far
less than flying. Next time I have decided to drive for family trips.


Noise, vibration and temperature.

In the past 40 years, the improvement in the automobile has been
remarkable, in the comparable aircraft, almost no change at all.



Not if you fly a 40 year old airplane, moron.


Bertie

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Not if you fly a 40 year old airplane, moron.


Bertie


You really are thick, aren't you.

You and your replies sound more like Anthony every day.

"Maxwell" luv2^fly99@cox.^net wrote in news:66u2k.114$QN1.40
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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Not if you fly a 40 year old airplane, moron.


Bertie


You really are thick, aren't you.


Thicker than you can handle.


You and your replies sound more like Anthony every day.



Nope, mine are accurate.



Bertie

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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You really are thick, aren't you.


Thicker than you can handle.


You and your replies sound more like Anthony every day.



Nope, mine are accurate.



Bertie

What a dumb ass. Are you really to stupid to see that you are actually
resolving yourself, through your own actions?

I think a whole lot of people, have given you way too much credit. You prove
yourself more and more incompetent every day!