Regarding the Electro-Aircraft....awesome! All of my R/C planes are brushless electric and they're every bit as good as their gas/glow cousins....much quieter for most...and cleaner....it will be great when battery technology continues to grow in capacity while reducing it's overall physical size.
AOPA....please go after KSBA....the only transient parking there is through an FBO and they gouge people $40+ for an airport security fee and an FBO fee....it's slightly less if you buy a minimum amount of fuel....for those flying in to walk/Uber down to the beach to eat at the Beachside Restaurant and only in the area for 2-3 hour that additional $40 is jerky!
Is there a rule that you have to fill up at your home airport? SkyVector shows the fuel prices and there are many others that charge way less than our airport.
DAM8658 as long as you have enough fuel to get to the many other airports with cheaper fuel then there is no requirement to fuel up at your home airport. There is an airport less than 5 minute flight from my home airport that’s consistently $1-1.50 cheaper in fuel. I always stop there, fill up, then go to my home airport where the hangar is.
I'm not yet a pilot but I'm very sure about the future potential of flight. I don't know exactly how the situation is in USA but I'm guessing it's true there are well. Seems to me that we are missing two huge opportunities; much cheaper planes judging by how minimalistic things can fly well and numerous unassuming local landing strips. We need locality convenience. A small strip along a field is all it takes. Some crude planes can almost take off without a runway. Every town everywhere needs one so planes can be used for genuine transport to almost any place except for vast metropoles. Not just an expensive hobby curiosity. A small ugly cessna style plane must not be a 150k$ thing. A fast sleek small plane should and could be more of a 15k$ thing. A third thing we need is for ATC to step out of the dark ages and be computerized. All that verbal noise overhead has to go. Speaking of noise, the radio audio quality is appalling.
That’s a shame that Key West won’t budge on their ridiculous prices. Wonder how much they paid the FAA off to “agree” with their prices?? It would be nice to get down there, eat, shop, and explore for the day without spending $100 in frivolous BS that the only FBO is charging. Also, you never know what they are going to charge. I have called about once every three months to see what their fees are and they seem to change from one person to the next. Do they just make these fees up? One day the fee is $28/night and $5 infrastructure fee.. three months later its $50/night and $15 infrastructure fee... so which is it...??? I’m planning a trip to the keys but Marathon may be the place to go.
next step forward for the AOPA is to obtain unlimited access of fuel truck,s from any fuel seller on the airports -to kill the fuel mafia; free market of fuel!
It's amazing what Paradise Helicopters did to the community while the wildfires were happening!
Regarding the Electro-Aircraft....awesome! All of my R/C planes are brushless electric and they're every bit as good as their gas/glow cousins....much quieter for most...and cleaner....it will be great when battery technology continues to grow in capacity while reducing it's overall physical size.
Aviation is already expensive; to be limited (especially smaller GA aircraft well under 12,500) to ramp access exacerbates the problem.
AOPA....please go after KSBA....the only transient parking there is through an FBO and they gouge people $40+ for an airport security fee and an FBO fee....it's slightly less if you buy a minimum amount of fuel....for those flying in to walk/Uber down to the beach to eat at the Beachside Restaurant and only in the area for 2-3 hour that additional $40 is jerky!
So, which ramp would be at no charge? Alternative? FBO? GA? I'm assuming the FBO will charge transient aircraft which leaves the other two ramps.
Agreed - that wasn’t very clear...
Thanks for the clarification. Why not just call it transient parking vs. FBO though? Also, what about untowered airports which don't have charts?
We'll see how this new ramp dance does @ KMSV. Where double billing is a common thing. One by the county and the other by the FBO.
Is there a rule that you have to fill up at your home airport? SkyVector shows the fuel prices and there are many others that charge way less than our airport.
DAM8658 as long as you have enough fuel to get to the many other airports with cheaper fuel then there is no requirement to fuel up at your home airport. There is an airport less than 5 minute flight from my home airport that’s consistently $1-1.50 cheaper in fuel. I always stop there, fill up, then go to my home airport where the hangar is.
I'm not yet a pilot but I'm very sure about the future potential of flight. I don't know exactly how the situation is in USA but I'm guessing it's true there are well. Seems to me that we are missing two huge opportunities; much cheaper planes judging by how minimalistic things can fly well and numerous unassuming local landing strips. We need locality convenience. A small strip along a field is all it takes. Some crude planes can almost take off without a runway. Every town everywhere needs one so planes can be used for genuine transport to almost any place except for vast metropoles. Not just an expensive hobby curiosity.
A small ugly cessna style plane must not be a 150k$ thing. A fast sleek small plane should and could be more of a 15k$ thing.
A third thing we need is for ATC to step out of the dark ages and be computerized. All that verbal noise overhead has to go. Speaking of noise, the radio audio quality is appalling.
That’s a shame that Key West won’t budge on their ridiculous prices. Wonder how much they paid the FAA off to “agree” with their prices?? It would be nice to get down there, eat, shop, and explore for the day without spending $100 in frivolous BS that the only FBO is charging. Also, you never know what they are going to charge. I have called about once every three months to see what their fees are and they seem to change from one person to the next. Do they just make these fees up? One day the fee is $28/night and $5 infrastructure fee.. three months later its $50/night and $15 infrastructure fee... so which is it...??? I’m planning a trip to the keys but Marathon may be the place to go.
next step forward for the AOPA is to obtain unlimited access of fuel truck,s from any fuel seller on the airports -to kill the fuel mafia; free market of fuel!