A solution to the parking problem

For one landing fees are very common.

 

What? You fly a Gulfstream? I fly a single piston-engine plane, no landing fee ever for the whole time I had it flying all over the west.

Perhaps you could offer your intelligent, creative solution to the parking problem.

 

Very true. But keeping an airplane for a pet is easier if you have a few extra bucks or a way to write off your expenses.

 

Not a gulfstream, just a little bitty a36 bonanza. Sure did pay a ton of landing fees with her, heck i even got bills in the mail for flying NEAR a few airports in the northeast. That's right, not only do they charge landing fees they can charge for being in their airspace. if insurance hadn't skyrocketed id still have it. Got my eyes out for an older 172 in decent shape if you happen to see one for a fair price.

There is no parking problem, there is a failure to plan problem. Drivers roll into a shipper or reciever with 2 hours left on their clock and think the customer owes them a parking spot or they pull into a truckstop in a major metropolitan area at 1 am and are surprised there is no available legal spots. That's failure to plan.

 

Depends on what you want out of it. Just to tool around on a Sunday afternoon you can get up in a cessna 152 for 30k.

 

Very true. You can get one for even less if it's out of license, has a high time engine, needs the avionics updated or just generally had the crap beat out of it as a trainer somewhere.
It's kind of like anything else though, buying it is the easy part. I don't know what they charge for a hanger or an annual inspection where you are but even up here in the boonies it's a major expense.

 

Really, 'failure to plan' ??? A driver is supposed to know a parking spot is available at a particular place at a specific time accounting for traffic, delays and a thousand other variable things? I plan on winning the next mega million lottery, why don't you tell me the winning number I will share half with you. Deal?

 

Its called making educated guesses. If all of the guys that regularly pull od loads with curfews can manage it to find parking then there is no reason the rest of us can't.
You know what 23 years of driving trucks had taught me? 99%of the problems drivers face could have been prevented by a driver using his brain for more than a hat rack.

I drive all over this country and the ONLY times i have issues with parking is because i failed to plan properly. Sometimes it's a blatant failure by being a dumb ### and other times its more a lack of knowledge of the parking availability on a specific lane but both situations i could have prevented the problem by being more proactive with my planning.

 

Annual inspections are a few hundred for the typical single prop. Hanger space is very expensive but tie down space is pretty cheap. No way would i rent hanger space for a 30k dollar cessna. For a million dollar beechcraft with a hundred grand worth of avionics? Ya id rent a hanger for that.

 

Your statements are illogical and unreasonable, perhaps your brain is the problem you do not have the ability to comprehend. I will ask again; how a driver is supposed to know a parking spot is available at a particular place at a specific time accounting for traffic, delays and a thousand other variable things? If you can't answer this question then you can't plan for ####.