NYC Transit Strike!
12-21-2005, 01:16 PM
#82
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I just said more into more didn't I?
Hey Banzai, I just did a quick little estimate, and If I rent a plane for 70 bucks and hour I probably spend 15 bucks taxing from one end of the airport to the other which is roughly 1 mile long. This would be on a fairly busy day also.
Edit: this is from start up to takeoff.
Hey Banzai, I just did a quick little estimate, and If I rent a plane for 70 bucks and hour I probably spend 15 bucks taxing from one end of the airport to the other which is roughly 1 mile long. This would be on a fairly busy day also.
Edit: this is from start up to takeoff.
12-21-2005, 01:17 PM
#83
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Originally Posted by 94touring' post='788749' date='Dec 21 2005, 02:16 PM
I just said more into more didn't I?
Hey Banzai, I just did a quick little estimate, and If I rent a plane for 70 bucks and hour I probably spend 15 bucks taxing from one end of the airport to the other which is roughly 1 mile long. This would be on a fairly busy day also.
Edit: this is from start up to takeoff.
So wouldnt it be cheaper to take a taxi from the apron to the runway?
12-21-2005, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by banzaitoyota' post='788750' date='Dec 21 2005, 11:17 AM
So wouldnt it be cheaper to take a taxi from the apron to the runway?
I think for the most efficiant use of time, I'd take the tug from the Jet center and pull my plane to the hold short line at the runway. To stay legal I'd bring a radio to let tower know what I was doing. Then I'd hop in and fire it up and blaze out of there.
But where you could really save some money is buying fuel wherever you land and taking the courtesey car out for some demolition derby style driving.
12-21-2005, 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by phinsup' post='788746' date='Dec 21 2005, 11:13 AM
wut are tenths boxrs4sale, could you dumb those down for the rest of us so we can understand?
the flaming can stop.
i can dumb it down. anythng for you phins. but it would take a lot less time over phone so i'll pm you my cell if your that interested. let me know.
i started out by saying, i'd rather fly, and i can do it cheaper than a train and comparable to driving.
you had to be the *** and bring in the specifics of a brand. a hobbs is a hobbs.. they may be a brand, but they are all referred to as a HOBBS meter. i could say that i was flying a 1972 cessna 172 with a 140 hp continental engine. ifr capability; equipped for gps and ils approaches, tcas.. and that i would fly into ny on the 321 radial of so and so's vor. i tried to dumb it down, but apparently paying for a flight has to become a complicated 3 page issue.
i was giving information that i was asked. i wasn't ratting off ****, i was proving a point that it could be done cost effectively and that you can fly into and over nyc.
12-21-2005, 03:07 PM
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"for you mere mortals 10ths of an hour are 6 minutes long, it's like how your watch has marks every 5 minuts, but it's one minute more"
"Unfortunately phins you are too stupid to grasp the concept of time and measuring it in 10ths, you see every minute is 60 seconds long, an hour 60 minutes and a day 24 hours, tides are controlled by the moon, one revolution of the earth is one day, or 24 hours or 1440 minutes, or 86,400 seconds, I dont expect you to grasp this, so just trust me that it's fact"
"Unfortunately phins you are too stupid to grasp the concept of time and measuring it in 10ths, you see every minute is 60 seconds long, an hour 60 minutes and a day 24 hours, tides are controlled by the moon, one revolution of the earth is one day, or 24 hours or 1440 minutes, or 86,400 seconds, I dont expect you to grasp this, so just trust me that it's fact"
12-21-2005, 03:09 PM
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"omg you are all such morons for not knowing how airplanes are rented, ******* idiots, I hope you choke on that pole you smoke, non pilot license mother *******. EAT **** AND DIE, SEE YOU IN HELL YOU **** GOBBLING FUCKTARDS"
