Posted on 06/12/2017 2:50:16 PM PDT by artichokegrower
We don’t have a problem with people flying around in their private jets. We have a problem with the bypocracy of most Hollywood creeps.
Your post makes no sense.
You say you worked at the American Airlines Flight Academy. That is located in Texas.
Thurman Munson trained in Wichita, Kansas.
Mr. Munson was the source of his own trouble. The airplane stalled on final approach.
The odds of a fatal accident in a small airplane are one in 500. Where did you get that number? I’ve been flying small aircraft for forty years with tens of thousands of flight hours. I train about two hundred pilots a year, many with experience similar to mine. The number of fatalities among my brethren are extremely few and far between.
I cant think of any other issue except fuel. Nothing else in the AC that would cause both engines to shut down and not take out something else to make the plane un flyable..
maybe shorted it... its happened before..
If she hit her head, there’d be no chance of injuring anything vital.
“I still don’t get how climate change can destroy the planet. Do liberals think it will get so hot the earth will catch fire and melt, or explode, or vaporize?”
No... satan has his minions convinced that the light will kill them!!!
“LMAO, Meryl Streep only plays one character in all her movies and its you guessed it Meryl Streep.... boring and so overrated”
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You’re kidding !
Explain to me how her characters in “Sophie’s Choice” and “Mamma Mia” are alike.
Politics or not,she’s a great actress——as is Jennifer Lawrence.
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Too bad...
The distance between Louisville and Buffalo is 460 nautical miles. A Cessna Citation Bravo business jet making that trip today would experience, at flight level 450, a six knot tailwind, which is very mild. The required fuel to takeoff, climb, cruise and descend would be 1,680 pounds of Jet A. Using a conversion rate of 6.75 pounds per gallon, that works out to about 250 gallons, or about twelve tank fulls of gas assuming a 20 gallon tank.
Do “most of us” buy gas once a month?
Somebody who claims to have been at the airport says it was only a single engine failure.
She could have raised awareness by crash landing her dumb ass in a lake somewhere...
She has to pledge her tributes for the odds to remain forever in her favor.
The 1 in 500 was in a account I read written by a professional pilot. I also know that life insurance underwriters will ask applicants “Do you fly non-commercially?” They ask that for a good reason. I personally knew 3 pilots who died and a couple who crash landed with serious injuries.
Things have improved technically by light-years since then.
As for Texas, you are right. We had full Citation training there and I ‘heard’ he’d been there. Maybe not...
——Do liberals think it will get so hot the earth will catch fire and melt, or explode, or vaporize?-——
Didn’t you know in a mere 40 to 60 years we will be a dead rock floating in space?
Ask any liberal..
“Despite being forced to fly without any engines, the pilot managed to safely land in Buffalo.”
That takes incredible skill. The pilot here is the real hero and story IMHO.
Something like Trump's secret Army was trying to shoot her down, but the pilot, a former combat pilot, evaded everything they threw at her and landed on dirt road on a buffalo ranch. They buffalo ganged together and tried to flip the plane, but Jennifer opened the door and screamed at them to back off. They did, and in fact, they let her ride to safety on the back of the elder buffalo.
I think that is incredible that she does that ... given how much money she has. She has been raised well.
There comes a point in a wealthy persons life, where flying commercial is a losing proposition.
Arriving 1-1/2 to 2 hrs before departure, to check in, go through TSA and then 20 minutes or so for boarding.
Then you add flight time and now with some over seas flights limiting electronics.
Then there is the wait for deplaning. Getting to baggage. Waiting for your bags.
Now you add a baller spouse, like the Kushners are and that's 2 people being tied down.
You could have 2-3 hours tied up, other than the flight time.
Not to mention unexpected flight delays or cancellations.
Private jets, unless Trumps 757, can fly in to smaller airports. Airports that are more convenient maybe, than the majors. Definitely no traffic at the airport, like the major airport.
5-10 minutes after arriving, you're wheels up. No useless down time at the airport, checking in.
While in flight, you can be on the phone or doing whatever office work you'd be doing on the ground.
You land and 5-10 minutes later, you're in your ride from the airport.
At some point, fractional, charter or full ownership, out weighs flying commercial.
A person flying round trips, just once a month could be wasting 50-100 hours a year, just with normal check in and baggage. You start talking multiple flights a month, PLUS a baller spouse, you're talking 250-500 man hours wasted.
Then you figure flight time wasted on a commercial flight. That could be 1000 man hours a year, wasted, for a couple like Kushners.
There are 8760 hours in a year.
A person that makes, let's say $50 mill a year, they are making $5700 every hour of every day.
The cost of flying private is offset by the amount saved in productive time. Even if that time is used just to sleep on the plane.
And Harrison Ford was the pilot?
Mount St Helens bank account ...$0.00
“The cost of flying private is offset by the amount saved in productive time.”
That’s fine as long as they don’t use that productive time telling us that we are burning up the planet by driving our Toyotas to work.
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