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I didn't feel poor until I read this article.


1 posted on 04/15/2015 7:55:14 AM PDT by pabianice
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“They think having a helicopter pilot’s license on an application will help their kids get into college.”

They should teach him how to be an underrepresented minority instead.


2 posted on 04/15/2015 7:57:16 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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I didn't feel poor until I read this article.

I still don't feel poor.

I can't afford anything close to this, but I don't feel poor.

3 posted on 04/15/2015 7:59:42 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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He should raise his rates to $2,000 per hour.


4 posted on 04/15/2015 8:02:09 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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Take the $100,000 set aside for helicopter lessons and donate it to your school of choice instead. Your kid will get accepted even if they have an ACT score of 3.


5 posted on 04/15/2015 8:02:25 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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selfie ping


6 posted on 04/15/2015 8:02:51 AM PDT by buckalfa (First time listener, long time caller.)
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Because the Clintons were “dead broke” after leaving the WH, Chelsea had to wait until age 30 for her $10 million Manhattan starter home.


7 posted on 04/15/2015 8:02:52 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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Hillary flies out to Iowa in her Gulf Stream jet, and then meets up with the transportation company that delivered her “van” for the campaign. 1%rs


8 posted on 04/15/2015 8:11:47 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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“I didn’t feel poor until I read this article”

That seems to be the agenda.

Even Air and Space has a leftist agenda.


11 posted on 04/15/2015 8:34:38 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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Helicopters are the motorcycles of the sky.... safety wise...


12 posted on 04/15/2015 8:35:36 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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‘Take the 14-year-old whose parents have budgeted over $100,000 for weekly lessons.’

In a place I live they would teach you to fly a commercial airliner for under $50,000, given you are dumb enough and medically unfit not to get a grant from airline or join air force and get tuition for free.
As for rotary wing, for 90,000 rubles they would teach you to take off, land and make basic maneuvers with R44, and you would probably get full course and licence with this type for under 500,000 rubles which is less than $10,000.


13 posted on 04/15/2015 8:56:46 AM PDT by Paid_Russian_Troll
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I feel poor and am poor but at one time had an active pilot’s license.


14 posted on 04/15/2015 8:59:30 AM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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The money spent provides good jobs to flight instructors, yacht captains, mechanics, etc., so spend away.


15 posted on 04/15/2015 9:28:45 AM PDT by Cecily
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People who have scads of money should spend it on whatever they wish.

Even helicopter lessons for their children.


17 posted on 04/15/2015 9:44:03 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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Meanwhile for the rest of middle America, general aviation (GA) has all but become out of reach and very unaffordable for most.

My dad used to rent a plane and take the family up on weekends. At one time he owned a Cessna. All on a single medium income where Mom wasn’t even required to work.

Just try doing that nowadays in middle America.


18 posted on 04/15/2015 10:20:20 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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