Re: Re: Re: Bad Credit Results in Strip Search OVER~ZEALOUS SECURITY AT THE AIRPORT...NOT FLYING A PLANE!!!
Re: new travel rules-Fico Which report are they pulling? Or are they going with a totally indepedant rating system (FLAKEO)?
A Cessna 140 does not cost 60k. And perfectly good used planes can often be bought for as little as $1,000. Of course if they are that cheap they have a lot of work to be done on them but $10k to $20k is not at all uncommon. But have you never heard of renting a plane taking it where you want to go and either leaving it there or coming back home it it. Usually about $30 to $40 per flight hour wet to rent it. Now then, I can take a Cessna 140 from Oklahoma City and fly to El Paso, Texas and beat the proud bird with the golden tail every time. How can that be you ask? I'll tell you why and how. I have to be at the airport at say 9 A.M. to catch the flight. It's probably going to be an hour or two before the flight leaves. Its going to go to Dallas and there I have to switch planes taking another bunch of time. Then its going to fly to Amarillo and land there taking on and discharging passengers, maybe fuel. Then its going to go to Lubbock, Texas and do the same thing. And then its going to go to El Paso. I'll get there about 1:30 or 2 P.M. I'm going to be at Wiley Post in Bethany at 9 A.M. My plane is all ready to go. I'll do my pre flight check list and get permission to taxi. And then I'll get permission to enter the active runway where prior to requesting permission to take off I will spend maybe 5 minutes max doing my preflight runup and getting the instruments ready to go. Set the transponder to proper sqawking frequency, set the altimeter and such as that. I've got clearance to go by maybe 9:30 at the max, probably less. I give the plane a bit of gas and release the brakes letting it slowly get into position for the take off and when I'm ready i'll give it full throttle and pull hard back on the yoke and I'm gone. On the way up I'll check my carb heat and start to ease forward on the yoke a bit keeping a hard climb until I reach flight altitude. Don't want to waste any gas getting to flight altitude. I'll have to dodge Will Rogers traffic and then once I'm past Will Rogers and safely on my way to Chickasaw I'll set course for El Paso and I'll set down in El Paso in just about 4 hours or a bit less. I'll already have a rent a car lined up and all I have to do is park the plain, tie it down and chock the wheels, put in the nose plugs and the pitot tube cover and be sure the controls are locked down and the plane refueled for the trip home so I don't have to worry about getting water in the fuel tanks and I'm off to whatever it is that I'm going to do. And there are those passengers maybe just getting into the terminal and debarking from their journey. Not much difference in time, usually a lot cheaper and much less hassle. They can take that golden tail and shove it where the light don't shine as far as I am concerned. And if its going to take me more than about 4 or 5 hours to get there then I'll step up to a bigger bird that can easily double the speed of the Cessna 140.
Re: Re: Re: Bad Credit Results in Strip Search Today its much different than when I started to fly. Back then I got my first driver's license when I was 14 years old. And I got my first private when I was 16 because the law then was the same as it is now. But I started learning how to drive a car when I was maybe 4 or 5 years old, standing on the seat between my daddy's legs. On back country roads or out in a hay field that's OK. By the time I was 7 I was driving tractors in the field all day long. I could plow a furrow a half mile long and as straight as a string. I could operate a hay baler or most farm machinery. All dad had to do was tell me to go do it and I could do it. I started taking flying lessons from a neighbor who was an ace WWII fighter pilot and had my license by the time I was 16 and I could handle a plane as well as he could. Not a P-51 Mustang fighter plane mind you but a Stinson 150 or a Cessna 140 or 145 in a heartbeat. If given the opportunity a kid can learn to fly well before he can get a drivers license the way the law is today and quite a few of them do just that.
Re: Re: Bad Credit Results in Strip Search The fall didn't bother him a bit. It was that sudden stop at the bottom that got him. (LOL)
Re: Re: Bad Credit Results in Strip Search GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THINGS: "Police: Body Cavity Search Reveals Crack" -- La Crosse (Wisc.) Tribune headline
Re: Re: Bad Credit Results in Strip Search I'm waiting for one airline inquiry to drop my fico 1 point. I'll sue their butt's so fast. lol
Re: Re: Re: Bad Credit Results in Strip Search "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." --Benjamin Franklin Once you give up your Liberty =You have lost your Safety.
Make that $70K - you'll need the Pilot's license to fly it (5K more) and the IFR rating to be able to take the plane out in IMC conditions. But at least no one witha wand will make you strip when your BARE FEET set off the metal detector (that happened to me in November in Tucson Airport).
I wouldn't doubt one little bit that the license would cost every bit of 5k these days. I don't even remember what mine cost me but it was only the cost of the check ride and the visit to the Doctor and then the license itself, whatever it was back in those days. The nearest airport was about 30 miles away in Lincoln, Nebraska and everything else was landing strips in alfalfa and stubble fields. The plane burned regular gasoline out of the same farm gas tank we filled the tractors up with and that was about 25 cents a gallon back then. And I sure would hate to have to pay for the IFR rating today. That has got to be ungodly expensive.
BK on file...you're not flying for a while, come back and try again in 7-10 years. WTF, Big Brother getting stronger...Communism here we come.
People are getting just a wee bit upset about it too. A reporter went to visit our troops and asked a group of them how many believed that the troops had the support of the American people back home? The reporter said not one raised their hands to the question. Dan Rather is now being hailed as Baghdad Dan. Something akin to Hanoi Jane. The American people are slowly becoming frightened by our own politicians who are claiming that anyone in America could be a terrorist and so vigilance and investigation of everyone must now become a top priority. Many people now no longer have confidence that American media is doing anything more than being lackeys for the Bush administration and believe that war is now inevitable regardless of how the UN or anybody else votes. Anti-war protests now are being carried out in many cities. We had one the other day here in OKC as they marched back and forth in front of the bombing memorial site protesting the war. Personally I would not be greatly surprised to see another impeachment attempt.
There is always the possibility of some fool trying that but violence is never the appropriate action if one has any other choice. The appropriate action is to work within the system to bring about change. To get that done will take an angry citizenry willing to learn how and stand up and speak out for what they believe in. Quite frankly I have serious doubts that even an invasion of Iraq nor any other country will accomplish that. It will take some outrageous series of acts by the government that outrages the public beyond any hope of compromise to bring about the drastic changes that would be required to return our nation to the principles espoused by our founding fathers. I do not expect that to happen any time soon.
