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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Aviation Megathread | "It is not a pilot shortage. It is a pay shortage"
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two_beer_bishes
Jun 27, 2004

Bob A Feet posted:

Anybody in Syracuse? Flying there from Wilmington today with a two plane section for a lil cross country action.

Oasis?

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two_beer_bishes
Jun 27, 2004
 Xposting from the AI thread:

Not sure if anyone here has been following the Bugatti 100p project that's been going on for a while. It crashed today, killing the pilot.

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two_beer_bishes
Jun 27, 2004

vessbot posted:

Rut-roh! I'll be commuting MSP-JFK on Delta network.

So, uh, anyone else's Facebook heating up with plane on a treadmill lately?

MSP-LGA is usually wide open, especially compared to JFK which is almost always over sold. You can take the NYC Airporter shuttle to the other airport for $10-15 though.

two_beer_bishes fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Oct 16, 2016

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two_beer_bishes
Jun 27, 2004

xaarman posted:

Can you look into a Flying club? Usually insurance is wrapped up into those costs.

I went to a local FBO to knock out my ATP, and was the most money grubbing, POS operation I could imagine (want to use our checklist? $5. Headset? $10. Separate ground instruction? $35/hr.) Half of the old rear end avionics were labeled INOP. Anyways, they wanted me to purchase my own insurance for the whopping 5 hours I was going to use their plane and it came out to like $500-600/yr. But hey, I could cancel after I was done and they would refund me 50%!

Then I went to the local Community College, everything was included in the rental, had beautiful fully functioning G1000 avionics, and I did it in 1.5 flights and a check.

YMMV, but it certainly turned me off to the smaller mom and pop shops.

In my experience it's pretty normal to be charged ~$10 to use their headset and the ground instruction charge seems normal too. gently caress charging people to use the checklist though.

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two_beer_bishes
Jun 27, 2004
 Fedex DC10 on fire at FLL

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two_beer_bishes
Jun 27, 2004
 Holding for Atlanta, most likely.

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two_beer_bishes
Jun 27, 2004

Truga posted:

The overbooking is because no airline in the history of airlines has ever been solvent, so they overbook because 99.9% times, someone won't show anyway. Gotta squeeze those bucks.

I know JetBlue has a policy to not overbook flights.

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