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Re: $100 Hamburger

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Post by thomasfedb »

phinnaeus wrote: post #5

> A group of pilots who had run out of hot cross buns on Good Friday decided to fly to the closest open bakery on Rottnest Island. I can't believe that a bakery (the one bakery) on Rotto would be the closest open bakery...

We no longer require a bun crisis to lodge this flight plan. Plenty of flights are made to Rotto for a sausage roll, any time of the year.

Re: $100 Hamburger

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Post by haiku2077 »

paulpauper wrote: post #2

However, increasing fuel prices have since caused an increase in hourly operating costs for most airplanes, and a Cessna 172 now costs US$95–180[3] per Hobbs hour to rent, including fuel.[4] I had no idea it is so cheap to rent a Cessna. A private jet is easily 20x that

Renting a Toyota Camry is also cheaper than hiring a tour bus with driver

Re: $100 Hamburger

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Post by kolinko »

phinnaeus wrote: post #5

> A group of pilots who had run out of hot cross buns on Good Friday decided to fly to the closest open bakery on Rottnest Island. I can't believe that a bakery (the one bakery) on Rotto would be the closest open bakery...

I don't know about Australia, but in Poland, on Easter and Christmass, I can easily believe there would be no single bakery open in the whole country.

Also, it was before google maps, so they couldn't just google nearest open bakeries. It might as well have been "nearest open bakery they were aware of". Funny how modern tech made the terms "closest open" and "closest known open" virtually the same.

Re: $100 Hamburger

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Post by t0mas88 »

ssl232 wrote: post #3

I guess landing fees add to the $100?

Not really for most small airports. The plane is in the $ 200 per hour range, so a 1 hour out and 1 hour back flight is $ 400 in rental and fuel. The landing fee is more like $10-20 and often free if you buy fuel there.

Only big airports with mandatory ground handling are expensive to land at.

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Post by fnord77 »

paulpauper wrote: post #2

However, increasing fuel prices have since caused an increase in hourly operating costs for most airplanes, and a Cessna 172 now costs US$95–180[3] per Hobbs hour to rent, including fuel.[4] I had no idea it is so cheap to rent a Cessna. A private jet is easily 20x that

a Cessna engine costs maybe $30,000 to overhaul (every 1800 hours or so)

a Gulstream G650 engine costs maybe $4,500,000 to overhaul every 10,000 hours. Times 2.

a Cessna 172 sips about 8 gallons per hour.

A G650 guzzles about 500 gallons of fuel per hour

jet fuel is a little cheaper than avgas though

Re: $100 Hamburger

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Post by t0mas88 »

paulpauper wrote: post #2

However, increasing fuel prices have since caused an increase in hourly operating costs for most airplanes, and a Cessna 172 now costs US$95–180[3] per Hobbs hour to rent, including fuel.[4] I had no idea it is so cheap to rent a Cessna. A private jet is easily 20x that

The price of the jet includes the cost of 2 crew to operate it and the organization around it to arrange everything for dispatch. The Cessna price listed here is for only the plane and fuel.

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Post by Sabacak »

paulpauper wrote: post #2

However, increasing fuel prices have since caused an increase in hourly operating costs for most airplanes, and a Cessna 172 now costs US$95–180[3] per Hobbs hour to rent, including fuel.[4] I had no idea it is so cheap to rent a Cessna. A private jet is easily 20x that

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Post by dyauspitr »

paulpauper wrote: post #2

However, increasing fuel prices have since caused an increase in hourly operating costs for most airplanes, and a Cessna 172 now costs US$95–180[3] per Hobbs hour to rent, including fuel.[4] I had no idea it is so cheap to rent a Cessna. A private jet is easily 20x that

A private jet comes with a crew and a pilot. This is a plane you have to fly yourself.

Re: $100 Hamburger

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Post by w10-1 »

It's a sickening feeling to realize that to justify spending $50-100K on a plane and $1K/mo on maintenance and storage, you need some excuse to actually fly the damn thing at least 30X each year at $100/hr.

So no, it's not $100 and it's not a hamburger, but you gotta call it something in polite company.

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