That was amazing. Who needs a runway? Take off and land in your driveway!
 
Maybe they need to start a contest to see how fast airlines can get passengers on and off. I've stood in the aisle of planes for what seemed longer than the flight itself. They need to study how Disneyland manages people movement.

Randy P


Flying isn't a working mans hobby. To get a PPL card these days is about $8000, which includes instruction, books, and testing. Rental rates for a Cessna 172 (wet) is around $180 per hour. It's recommended that you fly at least 4-6 hours per month minimum. After refueling, it's pretty easy to spend over $1000 month and not really go anywhere other than flying around your area of residence. For that kind of money, I can come up with a lot of fun things to do other than flying.

 
Yep.  It was easy to blow a few hundred flying around the local area.  Once I got married, my wife pointed out that we needed to be saving that "couple hundred" into a savings account for a house.  That ended that. In addition, yep.... my life insurance rate was affected by the pilot's license. Agent said once I got 500 certified hours in my log book my rate would come down. I calculated it would cost tens of thousands to save a a few bucks monthly.   Once I quit flying and my medical expired, they lowered my rates.

I used to work for a guy who bought a plane. I don't know what he paid for it but he dumped tens of thousands into it. $8000 to weld a crack in the aluminum block, $5000 to reupholster the seats, $12000 in the avionics panel for updated radios and nav gear, and then the operational costs.  Currently, he's sold all that for an experimental cub ultra-lite that requires no license as I understand it. Heart related health problems forced his hand on that.
 
Me?  I go to the airport fly in's once a year and look at the planes and think back to when I used to fly.