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From: Stuart, FL
Originally Posted by boxrs4sale' post='788721' date='Dec 21 2005, 01:38 PM
damn phins. i'm not a mechanic. i don't different brand's of radio's, meters, gauges, gps's.. every aircraft our club owns and ones that i have flown have had hobb meters.
i ASSUMED that you'd understand what i meant when i said it was 70 an hour, and you only paid while the aircraft was running.
if it's such a bad thing to take an airplane over a train, or a car.. then do your thing. i can save money and have a shitload more fun by air.
I was merely trying to outline some costs, I never said taking a plane was stupid, was just trying to come up with a comparitable figure. Because of your inability to absorb any information in my posts you assumed i was trying to mock or point out stupidity.
My point with the "hobbs" being a brand is that you are trying to be a smartass and act like you've got some amazing knowledge that i don't possess or that you are so intellectually superior that you have "dumb" things down for me. If you are gonna be a smart ***, try and make statements that are just that......smart
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From: Stuart, FL
Originally Posted by banzaitoyota' post='788726' date='Dec 21 2005, 01:41 PM
NExt you'll be telling us all about the planes Motor that drives the propellar
It's called a pratt and whitney, its just like your car or boat it needs a "motor" to move it. Your car has an "engine" well airplanes have "pratt and whitney's"
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Originally Posted by phinsup' post='788730' date='Dec 21 2005, 10:42 AM
I was merely trying to outline some costs, I never said taking a plane was stupid, was just trying to come up with a comparitable figure. Because of your inability to absorb any information in my posts you assumed i was trying to mock or point out stupidity.
My point with the "hobbs" being a brand is that you are trying to be a smartass and act like you've got some amazing knowledge that i don't possess or that you are so intellectually superior that you have "dumb" things down for me. If you are gonna be a smart ***, try and make statements that are just that......smart
a ******* hobbs meter is a ******* hobbs meter. i have been flying on and off for 8 years and i have never heard differently.
i just asked one of our old time instructors here at work. he said that hobbs is a brand, and duh, it is an hour meter... but said everyone refers to them as hobbs meters.. you can call it what you want and could have joe smoes hour meter in your plane, but it will still be referred to as a hobbs meter.
general aviation knowledge.
i'm not trying to "wow" anyone by saying anything i said. it's common knowledge. i was just trying to prove that you could in fact save money flying, and yes, you can fly over the city.. and prove it was practical.. im sorry if an hour or "hobbs" meter threw you off.
i thought the easiest way to explain the cost was that you pay for the time you fly.
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From: My BIG ol TURBO-DIESEL
Originally Posted by boxrs4sale' post='788736' date='Dec 21 2005, 01:58 PM
i thought the easiest way to explain the cost was that you pay for the time you fly.
What about the time the engine is runnin on the Taxi-Way/Apron while you are waiting for Clearance from Clarance in the Tower to take off? Is that free?
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Originally Posted by banzaitoyota' post='788738' date='Dec 21 2005, 11:04 AM
What about the time the engine is runnin on the Taxi-Way/Apron while you are waiting for Clearance from Clarance in the Tower to take off? Is that free?
that normally takes only a few minutes. if i went that far into detail, i think phins would **** a brick.
i did mention though that it might add 5-10 minutes.
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boy you've proved me stupid, I wish I could comprehend all this complicated doohickey talk.
Yer the man boxrs4sale, yer the man thanks for dumbing stuff down for the rest of us down here in the shallower end of the gene pool. We love you!
Yer the man boxrs4sale, yer the man thanks for dumbing stuff down for the rest of us down here in the shallower end of the gene pool. We love you!
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From: Stuart, FL
Originally Posted by 94touring' post='788742' date='Dec 21 2005, 02:10 PM
To go more into more detail, you pay for hobbs time in tenths.
wut are tenths boxrs4sale, could you dumb those down for the rest of us so we can understand?