TTA Cherokee Driver wrote:

I take a lot of flights around 100nm, and quite frankly I don't think in
any of them I saved any time over driving when I honestly account for
ALL the time the flight took, including planning and preparation.

Yeah, 100 miles is about the break-even point. A few months back, I posted about
picking my mother up at Cape Map in the Maule. That's about 100nm. Had I driven
down, it would've been about two hours down and two back. As it was, it was 45
minutes to the airport and about 15 to get untied and in the air. The air time
was about two hours, and we had about an hour to tie her down and drive home.

About the same either way, but I still think the Maule beats the Parkway.

There's another plus. Mama hates headsets, so she was only able to talk to me for
the 45 minute drive home. That alone is worth the cost of the avgas. :-)

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