Roger wrote:
: Try again. At $115 to $125 and hour I'm looking at roughly half an
: hour total round trip counting taxi time at both airports. That works
: out to about $55 to $62.50 minus $30 still costs me $25 to $35 over
: the gas savings.
: So instead of saving a dollar a gallon I'm spending an extra dollar a
: gallon. IE, it costs me $2 a gallon to save a dollar a gallon.

OK... I thought you were talking about diverting an additional 20 miles to get
fuel on a trip... not making a special trip somewhere for fuel.

: There's a lot more to the cost of flying than gas.
: Now if I'm coming back from a trip in that direction it makes sense to
: top off before coming the rest of the way home.

That's what I was thinking.

As far as the cost of flying, I know everyone justifies it in different ways.
As far as our partnership goes, we are pretty loose, and don't charge an hourly rate.
My own (personal) justification is that the only expense I care about is direct
operating (fuel, oil, and operating fees like tiedowns elsewhere, etc). All the rest
are fixed and become *smaller* the more it is flown... and it's already split 3 ways.
Kind of a justification for flying more hours.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA *
* Electrical Engineering *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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