Why flying is so expensive

[Autothrust Blue]

I just had to buy an oil tank drain valve for a Caravan. $1300. This is why flying is expensive.

No, this does NOT stand for the National Airplane Parts Association—

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

No, this does NOT stand for the National Airplane Parts Association—

Isn't that the place north of San Francisco where all the wine comes from?

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Isn't that the place north of San Francisco where all the wine comes from?

Hilarity is listening to someone "not from around here" attempting to pronounce GEEHH

 

[KVNC]

I wonder what this cost. Skip to :25.

That's Skydive City at KZPH. I wonder where the door landed?

 

[CFI A&P]

I wonder what this cost. Skip to :25.

"Was that on video?"

Of course it was jackass. Probably on 25 GoPros. How else are you going to tell everyone "Brah, I was like this and you were like this. It was sick!"


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[averettpilot]

"Was that on video?"

Of course it was jackass. Probably on 25 GoPros. How else are you going to tell everyone "Brah, I was like this and you were like this. It was sick!"


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Skydivers....

Bet nobody told the pilot either.

 

[CFI A&P]

Skydivers....

Bet nobody told the pilot either.

Eh... If a P-180 can fly missing an elevator, the cargo door isn't important.


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[CFI A&P]

That's Skydive City at KZPH. I wonder where the door landed?

It isn't in the ASRS or NTSB database, but according to a skydiving forum, it landed in a quarry.

 

[Roger Roger]

No, this does NOT stand for the National Airplane Parts Association—

Meh. Part 135 of course not, but if I still owned my own airplane it would probably be so full of generic and experimental parts...

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Hilarity is listening to someone "not from around here" attempting to pronounce GEEHH

Isn't that on the BDEGA arrival? How is it pronounced? I say it as "Ghee"

 

[alaskadrifter]

Meh. Part 135 of course not, but if I still owned my own airplane it would probably be so full of generic and experimental parts...

Which would be perfectly legal on an experimental.

 

[trafficinsight]

Isn't that on the BDEGA arrival? How is it pronounced? I say it as "Ghee"

DIRECT GH!

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[Autothrust Blue]

Isn't that on the BDEGA arrival? How is it pronounced? I say it as "Ghee"

Gee-h, like you're reciting the alphabet. "Gee-ache." Someone's operating initials I am told.

 

[trafficinsight]

There's also KAYEX on the sstick departure.

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[JordanD]

Gee-h, like you're reciting the alphabet. "Gee-ache." Someone's operating initials I am told.

I can't help reading it in my head as "gheeeey"

 

[Autothrust Blue]

I can't help reading it in my head as "gheeeey"

"SouthernJets 1225, cleared direct GEEHH."
"Direct to Gay...gee...gee...golf echo echo hotel hotel, SouthernJets 1225."