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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message ... On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 18:55:46 -0700, "NW_PILOT" wrote in :: I did it in just about 1.5 hour's in my C150. What is the distance from the airport to your client's site? How do you commute there and back to the airport? When you add in the pre flight planning and post flight time, how does it compare with automobile travel? Don't get me wrong. I'd far prefer to commute by air than monitor the white line for four hours, but there tends to be a lot of additional "overhead" involved in flight that is absent in commuting by automobile not the least of which is the cost and inconvenience of securing ground transportation. Oh, on the pre and post flight planning don't take that long GPS direct!!! its about 200 miles by road + traffic via air its just over 100 miles. |
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
... You found _nothing_ truthful in my follow up article? Sorry, you're correct. Your article was entirely truthful, as a matter of fact. It was simply irrelevant, that's all. The only untruthful element was the implication that your statements in some way pertained to the flight in question. But I admit...that was only an inferrred implication, and thus could have been entirely my own mistaken interpretation of the post. My apologies to you. Pete |
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Please I I like to fly Instead Of Drive When I Have Business In The Area!!!!
Saves Time & Some Times Money. My Base In KVUO so all flights Originate From that Airport and its only about 10 min away from where I live. The Following Places I Travel To By Ground Require A Ferry $$$$$$$ and Lots of Time Waiting. Lopez Island, S31 Friday Harbor, W33 Victoria BC, By ground very curvy roads or very bad conditions like snow & ice buildup and mud slides. Astoria, Kast Seaside, 56S Tillamook, S47 Newport, KONP Yakima, KYKM Tri Cities, KPSC Spokane, KSFF Colville, 63S Chewelah, 1S9 Anything up the I-5 corridor it is usually cheaper to drive and it usually takes about the same amount of time! Anything over the mountains to the east or west of me or to any of the islands in the sound its sometimes cheaper or quicker & sometimes both to fly. This little 150 has saved my butt many time's being able to get some place on my own time schedule instead of having to wait for a boat or in traffic and around here they close passes in the winter time sometimes for days. Now that I have my Instrument Rating I will be able to fly on days that I have been forced to drive. From June 20th 2004 to June 19th 2005 I have put in Over 180 hours of Logged Flight Time sometimes I forget to log a flight oops! |
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Ah, that figures.
Me being a true flatlander, I was not immediately aware of the possibility of those landscape features ;-) -Kees |
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On 2005-06-28, Larry Dighera wrote:
you commute there and back to the airport? When you add in the pre flight planning and post flight time, how does it compare with automobile travel? Pre-flight planning on a regular (i.e. familiar route) becomes almost non-existent on a regular route. When I lived in Houston, I regularly flew from SPX to Weiser - after the first couple of times it was a case of pre-flight and jump in and go, no need to figure headings, waypoints and all the usual cross country stuff. Getting a weather briefing is a trivial amount of time. Even IFR trips on a regular route take very little preflight planning - for regular routes, a canned flight plan takes out most of the planning time. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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On 2005-06-28, Greg Farris wrote:
The only "imperfect" element was that in Europe you cannot fly into large, ommercial airports - at any cost That may be true of France, but remember that Europe is not a country any more than North America is a country. It is an agglomeration of (mostly) sovereign nations and what may be true in France is not necessarily true in Italy or Poland. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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Wrong.
The EU has its legislation but every member state can have its own, including aviation. So when it comes to aviation you first have ICAO, then EU, then state regulations. The last ones give you the real headaches when flying from country to country. And every airport can decide what traffic they welcome or not. The discussion was that large airports do not welcome GA, but on a smaller scale some airfields are off limits to UL and things like that. -Kees |
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Yep, that's true.
For my calculations for 200 to 500 mile trips I use 50mph for highways and 30 mph for backroads. Those figures are rather accurate and include traffic jams, fuel stops etc. On most occasions I'm on time +/- 15 min. even after a 500 mile drive. Shorter distances have to much variables to calculate a accurate average. -Kees |
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