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1. 03:03 AM - Re: Life in the friendly skies (David Feinstein)
2. 01:11 PM - Re: Life in the friendly skies (TeamGrumman@aol.com)
3. 02:31 PM - Re: Life in the friendly skies (Walt Beaulieu)
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| Subject: | Re: Life in the friendly skies |
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--> TeamGrumman-List message posted by: "David Feinstein" <david@carneyaviation.com>
# You and a lot of other people that travel on business are finding
# out that travel by GA aircraft is maybe a good way to go. And
# this is driving a lot of new aircraft sales.
Actually, I always knew. The purpose of the trip is to help a friend bring
home a Tiger he just bought. Because of lousy weather in the Northeast and
an electrical problem that took a couple of hours to fix, we're still en route.
Almost 500 miles to go, should work out today.
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| Subject: | Re: Life in the friendly skies |
--> TeamGrumman-List message posted by: TeamGrumman@aol.com
In a message dated 04/02/04 04:11:17 PM, aviation@acs-group.net writes:
>
> Sadly, On the short runs, Driving appears to be even faster than either
> commercial or low speed aircraft.. AKA yankee,cherokee,C172. Twice my wife
> and I left
> at the same time hers was a 3-3.5 hour drive once to Austin and once to
> southeast texas. She beat me to the destination both times in the car.
>
> Walt
>
I find this hard to beleive. Were you flying your own plane?
When I was a Rocket Scientist, back in the old days, I had contracts in
Carson City, Reno, Salt Lake City,
Sacramento, Catalina Island (off the coast, 26 miles from LA), Las Vegas,
Palo Alto, Monterey, San Diego, Irvine (SoCal), UCLA, and USC. These were all
within 500 miles of Lancaster (WJF, Fox Field). I also had contracts in State
College (Penn State), PA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne,
University of Dayton (Ohio) Research Institute, Boston, Lowell, MA, West Palm
Beach.
FL, Connecticutt, ....
Bottom line was, if the trip was over 100 miles but under 500 miles, I flew
my plane. I made a LOT of flights within CA and NV in my plane while at work.
It was cheaper for both me and the government. And, I got to fly on their
dime. USC, and UCLA were driving distance. Beyond SLC, it was quicker to
fly commercial. Now, if I had had a Lancair 4P or Legacy, it would have been
quicker all the way across the US.
The Lancair Legacy is still looking good to me.
Gary
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| Subject: | Life in the friendly skies |
--> TeamGrumman-List message posted by: "Walt Beaulieu" <aviation@acs-group.net>
The farther you go, the more the plane made sense vs a car and the more side
trips you make the plane makes more sense. I beat the hell out of a car trip
from Dallas to Laredo with the plane. I can do round trip AND work.
The shorter trips... IE DFW to AUstin are the one where the car beats you.
IE
Get in Car at
1PM
Get out of car at 4:30 PM in North Austin at the hotel.
Plane.
Get in car at 1 PM.
Drive 30 minutes to airport.
15 minutes to buy gas.
30 to fuel plane and preflight.
It is now 02:15.
Start engine. Warmup, runup.
02:30 break ground.
04:00 touch down.
04:15 finish dealing with FBO and leave with rent car.
04:45 Drive BACK north 30 minutes to Hotel. NOw the difference is only 15
minutes but this has happened to me twice going to different places.
I did race a car to New Orleans once, I flew there, Picked up my passenger
and ate lunch. Flew back to Dallas before the other guy had arrived at his
hotel in New Orleans.
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Subject: Re: TeamGrumman-List: Life in the friendly skies
--> TeamGrumman-List message posted by: TeamGrumman@aol.com
In a message dated 04/02/04 04:11:17 PM, aviation@acs-group.net writes:
>
> Sadly, On the short runs, Driving appears to be even faster than either
> commercial or low speed aircraft.. AKA yankee,cherokee,C172. Twice my wife
> and I left
> at the same time hers was a 3-3.5 hour drive once to Austin and once to
> southeast texas. She beat me to the destination both times in the car.
>
> Walt
>
I find this hard to beleive. Were you flying your own plane?
When I was a Rocket Scientist, back in the old days, I had contracts in
Carson City, Reno, Salt Lake City,
Sacramento, Catalina Island (off the coast, 26 miles from LA), Las Vegas,
Palo Alto, Monterey, San Diego, Irvine (SoCal), UCLA, and USC. These were
all
within 500 miles of Lancaster (WJF, Fox Field). I also had contracts in
State
College (Penn State), PA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne,
University of Dayton (Ohio) Research Institute, Boston, Lowell, MA, West
Palm Beach.
FL, Connecticutt, ....
Bottom line was, if the trip was over 100 miles but under 500 miles, I flew
my plane. I made a LOT of flights within CA and NV in my plane while at
work.
It was cheaper for both me and the government. And, I got to fly on
their
dime. USC, and UCLA were driving distance. Beyond SLC, it was quicker to
fly commercial. Now, if I had had a Lancair 4P or Legacy, it would have
been
quicker all the way across the US.
The Lancair Legacy is still looking good to me.
Gary
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