Commuting in a plane...

For one or two people, on a 70 mile flight, a 150/152 or a Katana would be inexpensive choices

At 5gph & 110kt an early Rotax-powererd Katana wouldn't be a bad
choice.

Listen to WTOP between 8-10 in the morning and your will hear me fly
the airplane. I try to be quiet when the observer is broadcasting but
sometime ATC calls and it can't wait.
Michelle

Malcolm wrote:

Michelle P wrote:


Ok so it is getting late.
One commutes in a Cessna 150, One in a Cessna 182 and the last in a
Maule M-7.
Michelle




Well, don't forget to wave to all us frustrated commuters down below
you wondering who's flying on a nice work morning. grin (Or perhaps
there's people who LIKE commuting, but I've never met one.) At least
I've got a Prius now!

-Malcolm

Michelle,

airport car at one end

You just reminded me that a friend of mine spent a few years during the
'90s commuting from Chino to Burbank in his Cessna 195. At Burbank he
had a Hudson Hornet as his airport car, for the short drive to his
business. About as classic commute as one could ask, other than the
vehicle at the Chino end was a relatively current pickup truck.

He didn't have an instrument rating, so there were days he was very
late getting into work or couldn't go at all, or was forced into a 2.5
hour drive one way.

All the best,
Rick

For a commute of 70 miles, the true airspeed of the plane is not a
significant factor. Most of your time will be spent getting to/from
the airport, handling fueling, preflighting, etc.


A dozen or so years ago I was working temporarily in San Bernardino,
while living in Santa Barbara. I looked into using my plane for
commuting (and even tried it once). I concluded that it just wasn't
worth it over so short a distance (in spite of having to cross the
L.A. basin). The difference in door-to-door time was about half an
hour. One problem was that the S.B. airport was 15 miles in the wrong
direction from my house. Another was that I was going East in the
morning and West in the evening (sun in the face both ways). Now, if I
had lived on (or near) one airport and worked on (or near) another, it
would have been a different matter.

David Johnson