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Losing Privacy in Route Plans
Disputing the curtail by the FAA of the Block Aircraft Registration Request, or BARR, program. (www.nytimes.com) Más...Ain't anybody's business is certainly the correct answer BUT!!! privacy in the good ole USA has been out the window for some time. BARR program or not if someone really wants to track you they can it get done. I doubt security is a real issue with many people. When i get my plane the main reason i would block it has to do with taxes.I don't want to make it easy for them. I want to be like Warren Buffett and GE and pay none. Then the government will eventually institute a fair tax code that doesn't exempt any select group for some stupid reason. I pay 41% fed and state tax and that is crazy.
Wayne I do not have your business email so I am coping my text here.
Wayne I forgot we were communicating on a public site. I paid 1,785,00 for the 400A with under 1900 hours and full engine and maintenance program, all I have to do is keep making the hourly payments. I have hired a good friend and pilot ( out of learjet 60, & 45 ) to fly with me and to fly our charters with a part time cp. This came about by us only having a Bravo out of Destin for hire. we already have 160 hrs. annually booked. I can't wait to get completely healthy so I can get back in the saddle when I want and have a plane free to me to use. When I recover I will fly up to see ya....
Wayne I forgot we were communicating on a public site. I paid 1,785,00 for the 400A with under 1900 hours and full engine and maintenance program, all I have to do is keep making the hourly payments. I have hired a good friend and pilot ( out of learjet 60, & 45 ) to fly with me and to fly our charters with a part time cp. This came about by us only having a Bravo out of Destin for hire. we already have 160 hrs. annually booked. I can't wait to get completely healthy so I can get back in the saddle when I want and have a plane free to me to use. When I recover I will fly up to see ya....
Well, it may be and may not. As I am in trucking now, we are starting to get bombarded about electronic logs(EOBR's) and all that. Railroads have had them in some form for many years and they are creeping into the Airlines in several forms, at the very least you have the black boxes on commercial stuff, and a cumulative electronic log for all pilots and eventually something will find it's way into the private or corporate pilots world. All of this is good in one respect but having been on both sides of it the part about set hours is what bothers me. People are different. It is 1650 miles, by the road, from here in Western Arkansas to the LA area. I have had veteran drivers come off a full week's rest and not get past the rest area 7 miles to the west without having to take a nap. That same driver might come out the next trip and if unfettered, be in LA by noon the next day. You can get in your car and nobody says a thing to you if you want to stay up 24hrs and drive straight thru to somewhere but a professional driver or pilot can't do that. Besides that 30 minutes I spoke of, many has been the time I have went into KLAX around 7-8am after leaving KFSM around 2-3am. Stretch out on a couch in the back and grab a 3-4 hr nap, wake up rarin'to go, and get back into KFSM around 5-6pm. Ain't a thing in the world legal about that. According to my book, I would have spent the nite there in LA or something like that, but because I felt like it and was allowed to, I got to sleep in my own bed and told them the earliest call I could take. As I said, people are different and it can make it harder on them at times, giving a set amount of on duty time, whether driving or in the rack, trying to make it all black and white. That said, begrudgingly, I have to go along with them(DOT /FAA) on their thoughts because there are people out there that will treat men just like machines. I was fortunate enought not to have had to deal with that.That being said though, it still ain't anybody's business where I'm going though.lol
30 min not a problem 4+ hours problem . You are right rest not always good small FBO's. Cute also log(lie)book. Thanks Wayne Bookout gave me good laugh today.
Sure it happens. Pilots are not any different than truck drivers. They are both under DOT, and both carrying log(lie)books. As a corporate pilot for my career, nobody was really watching over my shoulder, but they gave me latitude needed. Many's the time a meeting has gotten cut short or scheduled around our available flight hours, but there has been many the time that one ran long and it was land & spend a night in the Hotel in KTUL(PAX could grab a charter bus if they had to) or find that extra 30 minutes to get into KFSM so you could sleep in your own bed. By the same token, I know FEDEX guys flying out of KMEM bumped off of lovely runs cause they would go 2 minutes over on their time if they completed it. Plus we all know weather and traffic plays a big part when things are tight. I do realize that just as in trucking, there are companies out there that abuse their pilots and their are a lot of little podunk terminals out their that an 8 hr break for a pilot is being able to take his shoes off and stretch out in the airport manager's office, then hop up fresh? and pull 10 to get home. Hopefully those are going away.