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Bobby_Batronic

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  1. Who knows what Parker is doing? Crisis/BK operations are his wheelhouse so maybe he and his know what they are doing. Perhaps the buyouts are just shrinking the size of the bucket now as most of the debt service requirements are a few years off. Spoke to some Spirit guys and they’re looking at 50-60% ops in July. The Mouse, cruises and so on coming back online plus pent up demand will probably ignite the leisure market for awhile.
  2. For reference I had a partial flap landing (no slats) with a full boat at a high elevation airport and our Vapp was 163. You cant extend flaps beyond the second notch until 185 knots, but the gear can be lowered at 250 knots. The wheels won’t come down above 260 regardless of handle position.
  3. You have the benefit of single sleet ops with limited international exposure and feed, and your customer base isn’t hunting for executive travel perks and lounges. The LCC’s/ULCC’s will be the canary in the coal mine imoho. Business/international travel will be last to come back, but rapidly once it does as people are starting to come to terms with the real world lethality and transmission contingencies of Covid. That cargo MOU won’t hurt either. Hopefully the furloughs at the big 3 will be short lived. Interestingly, AA may have the least by shear dent of retirement numbers even though they are singularly the worst off financially.
  4. Jobs etc are there and some town have their charms at different times of the year. My point about the wealthy is that those with the wherewithal get out as quickly and as often as they can. Most often to West Palm or Naples.
  5. I’ve spent more than a fair share of time at the Gill FBO.
  6. We just had our currency extended by exemption something or other. My landing currency is up in July, but I’m now good until August 31st.
  7. It’s where the jobs, business industries etc. are. It’s the same reason DFW is overrun with out of staters. And it’s not because they dreamed of the Metroplex. Go to Teterboro, White Plains, Morristown, Philly NorthEast, Martin State, Dulles and probably a few others I’ve neglected on Friday afternoon and you’ll find most of the super wealthy people you think love the NE so are getting the fuck out of the NE on the nearest available private jet. Usually to that bastion of culture and fine living known as Florida.
  8. Mainly on Arrakis.
  9. At those point I don’t care if he fails so long as it isn’t by continually giving up third and Orlando over, and over and over again.
  10. The Mayans missed by 8 years.
  11. Yup. It’s like they didn’t just watch an 18 wheeler almost plow through a crowd of protestors.
  12. Probably 50/50 or worse.
  13. Sure, we’ll consider it when another nation manages to actually put feet on say the moon for starters.
  14. Or maybe he noticed how many points OU had to average to win the conference the last three hundred years.
  15. I was too busy admiring the greatness of that jersey design to notice the OSHA disaster behind.
  16. Happy to help as I can. I can at least provide the crew perspective on the frac equation.
  17. Depends on the mission, but the normal fractional/charter players are NetJets, Flexjet, XOjet, Travel Management, Planesense, Wheelsup and Jet Suite. I’m guessing you’re looking at Excels or Latitudes if you’re comparing Wheels Up and NJ’s. Something to think about, and I’m sure they’ve mentioned it, but larger fleets mean better recoverability and shorter wait times to not fly on some chartered jet you know nothing about when weather, maintenance or duty issues inevitably delay one your flights. For Flexjet or NetJets, for example, those recoveries will often take place in better equipment whereas one and two plane fleets like Wheels Up means it’ll be another Excel or maybe a King Air 350. It makes things a tad better when the flight goes off schedule, but at least a Challenger 300/350, G or Global shows up to complete the trip. If you’re considering the Phenom versus KingAir 350 then I would simply say that the Phenom has a ton of baggage space, is quite cramped inside, is very slow and has long legs. It’s an entry level jet, and your expectations should be set there even though the salesmen will tell you it is the cat’s very own ass. We routinely skunked it with performance, and the owner’s often noticed the greatly reduced block times.
  18. I believe that Kauai is roughly the same size as Oahu. The former has about 50k people and the latter has 2M+. Most of the people on Maui are tourists, and the Bog Island is nearly deserted by comparison.
  19. It looks like it.
  20. I flew for one of the large fractional operators for over a decade. They can structure the contract 100 different ways to accommodate your needs including the ability to move up or down in aircraft size or buy additional hours if needed. Or sell them back to company or into an owner pot. During my last few years there the charter card product really blew up, and pure fractional shares declined to only 50-60% of the clientele we flew. The cards tend to be a touch more expensive per hour, but have lower total hours bought, and all liability is pushed off on the operator instead of the share owner. Also, and this seems almost silly, but the cards tend to be a one bill item whereas the fractional shares would send updated bills for fuel surcharges, management fees etc. in addition to the base cost of the share. It’s been awhile, but 25 hours in a 7 seat, one stop to anywhere in the country type fleet cost $108k. I’m sure that increased a bit, but you might be able to drive a deal as the fracs are sitting around almost as much as the airlines.
  21. Hell, the last time it threw its hands up in the air (space) and gave up. I’d give it credit for having some initiative.
  22. I had an instructor note my getting sloppy with regard to centerline etc. on my landings and he started betting me a coke based on the outcome of the matter. Just a little skin in the game made me focus all the more, because I didn’t want to buy him the soda. And it’s not like we don’t all need a little clean up at times. I had been flying private jets professionally for a number of years when a check pilot and friend mentioned that I had a tendency to line up on the right side of the runway and work my way to centerline as I got close on my visual approaches. He was right. It happens. Good luck. Also, remember that nowhere does it say you have to solo by a certain number of hours be it 10, 15, 20 or whatever. I frequently continued with the dual instruction part of the syllabus until both the student and I agreed that they were ready to solo. They kept learning, and we checked that box when it was appropriate, and not on some low total hour goal.
  23. You just have to 3 in 1 rule. I can still multiply by 3, or multiply by 3 and add 10% plus distance to slow down for approaches. It’s that whole divide by 330 million thing that gets touchy.
  24. Computers do our maths. And if the computer won’t do it we call someone who’s computer will. They don’t want us long handing that shit.
  25. I wouldn’t have chosen my current profession if I wanted to do mathing.
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