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Re: $100 Hamburger

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Post by kdndnrndn »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #38
bombcar wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Non-NY fast food places have gotten close to or breached $10 for the burger. I still remember the “six dollar burger” at CJ.

When I was a teenager, I was in a boarding school (1975 or so). When we went on trips, we’d get $2 for lunch. At McDonald’s, I could get 6 cheeseburgers and a Coke for that (I was a teen. I had no problem, eating them all).

That's like >$10 in today's money. Significantly more than I would give kids for lunch today

5 EUR (about $1 in 1975) is about the cost of a Döner Kebab which is more than enough for a teenager

Re: $100 Hamburger

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Post by Tepix »

kdndnrndn wrote: post #40
petesergeant wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A private jet is a jet, where a Cessna 172 is a small unpressurised prop plane that dawdles along at 1/3 the speed and is uncomfortable to be a passenger in…

It's speed is also lower than many cars on the Autobahn at ~300 km/h Granted, there's less of a risk of traffic in the sky than on the Autobahn

„many cars on the Autobahn“? Not really, i very rarely see cars going 300 km/h.

Re: $100 Hamburger

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Post by haiku2077 »

bombcar wrote: post #35
dyauspitr wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You can often find a flight instructor willing to build hours at rates as low as $15/hr.

Although many can't officially take your money as that would he operating a commercial passenger service which is regulated differently.

Re: $100 Hamburger

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Post by abcd_f »

Tepix wrote: post #42
kdndnrndn wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's speed is also lower than many cars on the Autobahn at ~300 km/h Granted, there's less of a risk of traffic in the sky than on the Autobahn

„many cars on the Autobahn“? Not really, i very rarely see cars going 300 km/h.

Even 200 km/h is exceedingly rare.

Re: $100 Hamburger

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Post by Cockbrand »

tromp wrote: post #29
djmips wrote: post #18

I mean it's 2025 and real hamburgers are edging up in price so that $100 hamburger isn't thaat far away.

There's this $5000 hamburger: https://www.de-daltons.com/the-golden-boy/

Looking at the photo at https://www.de-daltons.com/the-golden-boy/#9f8739e7-f637-4e4..., it seems like the person eating the EUR 5,000 burger doesn't have enough money (or taste?) left to buy a decent beer to go with it.

Re: $100 Hamburger

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Post by m463 »

djmips wrote: post #18

I mean it's 2025 and real hamburgers are edging up in price so that $100 hamburger isn't thaat far away.

Went to betty burger in santa cruz and 2 burgers were close to $100 with the in-burger-purchases (on-burger onion rings for example)

Re: $100 Hamburger

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Post by cjrp »

t0mas88 wrote: post #14
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.

I always envy the US GA scene. So many airports, little or no landing fees, no prior notice required. In the UK it’s almost designed to prevent GA.

Re: $100 Hamburger

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Post by ryandrake »

t0mas88 wrote: post #14
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.

Typical small US airports still don't charge landing fees to light aircraft, but things are changing. Now that ADS-B[1] is deployed widely, airports are looking at automated landing fee charges as another way to soak pilots, just because they now can. A number of companies are sprouting up to meet this demand and offer airports their turnkey systems to monitor and charge everyone who lands, sharing the profit with the airport.

1: https://www.wingsmagazine.com/monetizing-ads-b-data/

Re: $100 Hamburger

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Post by nharada »

kdndnrndn wrote: post #40
petesergeant wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A private jet is a jet, where a Cessna 172 is a small unpressurised prop plane that dawdles along at 1/3 the speed and is uncomfortable to be a passenger in…

It's speed is also lower than many cars on the Autobahn at ~300 km/h Granted, there's less of a risk of traffic in the sky than on the Autobahn

Going 160 knots (300 kph) in a C172 would be pretty rare and is nearly at the maximum speed of the airframe. Cruise is more like 115 knots or 210 kph.
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