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Posted on 8/9/23 at 2:55 pm to The Mick
Citation 7
Citation X
Sovereign (not sure of number)
New Challenger is either a 350 or 3500
My FIL likes planes. They are nice but the hangar I drive to is an inconvenience.
Citation X
Sovereign (not sure of number)
New Challenger is either a 350 or 3500
My FIL likes planes. They are nice but the hangar I drive to is an inconvenience.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 2:56 pm to The Mick
I was lucky enough to fly on one to the US Open with one of my buddies families. I want to say it say like 10-12 people. I can’t remember what type it was but I remember looking it up afterwards and it was like $10 million brand new. I think back on it every once in a while and wonder if I’ll ever be able to fly on something that nice ever again. It’s so much more luxurious and convenient I can’t imagine being able to do that whenever I wanted
Posted on 8/9/23 at 2:58 pm to The Mick
My father knew a man who owned two DC-3's. His pilots flew our family to Houston once and back from Miami when the airlines went on strike at the same time as our vacation in the middle 60's. Good times. Fishing buddy's son is a private pilot both prop/jet.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:00 pm to TyOconner
quote:True, but that's counterbalanced (at least in my case) by having only one pilot. I have an idea of what would happen if he were incapacitated.
Yea the height thing is pretty wild the first couple times. I’m 6 2 so it’s rare that I can ever stand up. As for the fear of lying thing though, I find most people I ride with are less scared in private jets. It’s smaller for sure but you aren’t also surrounded by 100 strangers with weird smells and lots of commotion.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:02 pm to The Mick
Warren Buffets old jet a few times. This was a few owners ago. The company/guy that owned it at the time also owns the FBO in Hawthorne and shoots ariel photography for movies. He bought it as a charter jet.
The two coolest things in the hangar at the Hawthorne FBO are one of Elon's jets(Tesla and SpaceX have offices they rent at the airport) and two Blackhawk helicopters outfitted with cameras that cost $1 million each they use to shoot movies. They shot the aerial scenes in all of the Transformers movies with them.
A friend of mine also has a Citation II that I have been on several times. He keeps it at the Hawthorne FBO and it looks tiny compared to the expensive jets there but it's still better than my non-existent jet.
The most questionable private flight was when we took a seaplane over some of the islands in Fiji. It was an old rust bucket but the views were awesome.
The two coolest things in the hangar at the Hawthorne FBO are one of Elon's jets(Tesla and SpaceX have offices they rent at the airport) and two Blackhawk helicopters outfitted with cameras that cost $1 million each they use to shoot movies. They shot the aerial scenes in all of the Transformers movies with them.
A friend of mine also has a Citation II that I have been on several times. He keeps it at the Hawthorne FBO and it looks tiny compared to the expensive jets there but it's still better than my non-existent jet.
The most questionable private flight was when we took a seaplane over some of the islands in Fiji. It was an old rust bucket but the views were awesome.
This post was edited on 8/9/23 at 3:06 pm
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:04 pm to Judge Mental
quote:
True, but that's counterbalanced (at least in my case) by having only one pilot. I have an idea of what would happen if he were incapacitated.
If you are flying with a denizen of tOT you would likely be fine, about half of them figured they could land a commercial jet with a pilot on the radio coaching them.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:09 pm to achenator
quote:This.
Never have. Probably could "afford" to do it once or twice a year if I really want to. I feel it's one of those things that's really easy to get used to and hard to come back from and such a huge amount of $ over even a first class ticket.
Ironically, all of my kids have been.
I’ve turned down several trips on private aviation partly because I wasn’t thrilled about the pilot’s skill & hours.
I did price it for a trip and the cost is 2X as they’ve got to make two trips (i.e. they take you from Point A to Point B and then after your ready to come home they have to fly from somewhere to pick you up).
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:11 pm to sidewalkside
None of them compared to the King Air 350.
This post was edited on 10/23/23 at 2:33 pm
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:11 pm to The Mick
Wait, everyone doesn't own their own jet???
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:14 pm to soccerfüt
quote:
I’ve turned down several trips on private aviation partly because I wasn’t thrilled about the pilot’s skill & hours.
Its the small planes that go down. Usually not the big ones
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:16 pm to DiamondDog
quote:
Dow still runs their plane between BR and Midland all the time?
Yeah it’s a CRJ that they take everywhere.
Lake Jackson, Michigan, Philly
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:20 pm to The Mick
I’ll have my pilot check the logs and I’ll let you know how often
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:21 pm to Obtuse1
Citation x a lot
Gulf Stream when the x was not available..
Nice.. comfortable seats.. snacks and drinks were good.. and you pretty much tell them what to have ( you are paying for it)
Use to take the x up to Calgary a lot from Houston.. I did not rank it but was always traveling with a Vp as a technical advisor.
He was fun.. he use to always want to get above 50000 feet so we could see the terminator ( curvature of earth and where sun meets night)
The speed you can ascend has something to do with the speed at take off ( I think some aviation rule?) … so when we did it we had to buckle in and stow all the drinks and the pilots punched it hard..
We would go to midland and always fly around interesting things like old volcanoes and such.. we were a bunch of goofy geoscientist..
I remember the Vp would be well into the second bottle of wine eating some steak and look up at us and say “ life dies not suck”…. He was good at what he did and we were a small corporation.so he had a lot of flexibility in what he did… . we got bought by a big corporation and still would ride the new company jets but they were more just to commute and get a crowd from one office to the other asap..sorta like moving cows.
Gulf Stream when the x was not available..
Nice.. comfortable seats.. snacks and drinks were good.. and you pretty much tell them what to have ( you are paying for it)
Use to take the x up to Calgary a lot from Houston.. I did not rank it but was always traveling with a Vp as a technical advisor.
He was fun.. he use to always want to get above 50000 feet so we could see the terminator ( curvature of earth and where sun meets night)
The speed you can ascend has something to do with the speed at take off ( I think some aviation rule?) … so when we did it we had to buckle in and stow all the drinks and the pilots punched it hard..
We would go to midland and always fly around interesting things like old volcanoes and such.. we were a bunch of goofy geoscientist..
I remember the Vp would be well into the second bottle of wine eating some steak and look up at us and say “ life dies not suck”…. He was good at what he did and we were a small corporation.so he had a lot of flexibility in what he did… . we got bought by a big corporation and still would ride the new company jets but they were more just to commute and get a crowd from one office to the other asap..sorta like moving cows.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:24 pm to The Mick
My dad’s company had a Gulfstream; we lived in Savannah so no way they’d have any other kind. We used it to go to Miami when my grandfather passed away suddenly.
A company I worked for had 2- a Cessna for short trips and a King Air turboprop for longer ones. We guaranteed customers and prospect we could be onsite within 24 hours if need be; that’s how we did it. Company has a pilot on the payroll.
A company I worked for had 2- a Cessna for short trips and a King Air turboprop for longer ones. We guaranteed customers and prospect we could be onsite within 24 hours if need be; that’s how we did it. Company has a pilot on the payroll.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:26 pm to The Mick
When I’m in a hurry I use my SR-71. When I just want to cruise around I use one of my Bombardier Global 8000‘s. When I feel like going vintage, especially on trips to Germany, I’ll travel in my B-17.
This post was edited on 8/9/23 at 3:28 pm
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:26 pm to Thecoz
quote:
The speed you can ascend has something to do with the speed at take off ( I think some aviation rule?) … so when we did it we had to buckle in and stow all the drinks and the pilots punched it hard..
I think the pilots on the Citation X or equally fast jets really enjoy the fast, steep takeoffs. They enjoy putting on the dog and pony show. I know I enjoyed it.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:27 pm to The Mick
Gulf Stream G5s and a King Air. Fly routinely from Tx to Ca Smell of walnut and leather is profound, comfortable to say the least and when we call pilots within 45 minutes the plane(s) are ready when we pull on to tarmac. Steward cooks all kinds of great meals, and the whiskey comes out after dinner.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:29 pm to BigAppleTiger
Oh they did !!!!.. they use to do that check in thing when you would say your elevation and chuckle..
They were a lot of fun and loved flying for the Vp I mentioned
They were a lot of fun and loved flying for the Vp I mentioned
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:39 pm to The Mick
I have flown private via invites from others probably 15 times. Some was for work. It will spoil the shite out of you.
This post was edited on 8/9/23 at 3:41 pm
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