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[–] [email protected] 311 points 1 year ago (75 children)

/c/fuckcars : "use some other form of transportation!"

Also /c/fuckcars: "No! Not like that!"

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Must be lovely to hear your neighbor fire up their Cessna at 7 in the morning for their morning commute.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Enjoy being stuck behind the asshole in a C130 with trucknutz.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've lived under a flight path, ~9km/6miles from the airport - while I understand the difference between a 787 and a Cessna 172, I've got no earthly idea why anyone would choose to have a runway in their front yard.

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Little known fact. Airplanes still use leaded fuel. I’ll bet that the blood levels for all of these families are elevated. Not a great place to raise a kid.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Clarification: Only piston aircraft require leaded fuel. Which is unfortunately a pretty big part of the general aviation market, but similarly sized turboprops do also exist (though are more expensive) and it doesn't apply to modern commercial aviation at all.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Further clarification: Only gasoline powered aircraft without the Auto Fuel STC require leaded fuel.

Although, there is an initiative underway to fully phase out leaded avgas. G100UL is the FAA approved formulation. Exciting time and long overdue.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, and the FAA is taking it's sweet time to approve a new unleaded fuel for general aviation that shows a lot of promise called G100UL. It's estimated it could take another 6-9 years. Otherwise it's currently only approved for specific planes and not available at most airports and aerodromes.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is like looking at a yet to be made Tom Scott video.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (5 children)

He already did make a video on it lol

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Tom scott has made a video on everything, including this very thread.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (2 children)

http://www.casadeaero.net/text/about.php

Many pilots do this as a means of reducing the costs associated with operating out of areas with high hangar and service costs. This is Northwest of Chicago near Rockford. The about page explains a lot of the obvious questions.

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[–] Quills 65 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This exists?! Oh my That's not just mildly, it's really interesting!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (6 children)

They are somewhat common-ish if you know where to look. I fly by one a lot!

https://mapio.net/images-p/101437851.jpg

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"honey, Joe's wife is sick, can you take care of control tower duty today?"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (7 children)

These little strips don't use a tower. Pilots communicate with each other on unicom.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The smell and noise would be unbearable.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

It's obviously for plane nerds that won't mind.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Depends, looks like small planes, and even if 10 come and go everyday you would quickly stop hearing them at all (the brain is very good at ignoring useless stimuli)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Studies to highway and airport neighbourhoods say otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See, there are some weird types like me who actually like the smell of 100LL, and don't mind plane noise. I'd live there. But yeah, it's definitely not for everyone.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And they can't even afford an HOA to water the grass by the runway.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

It has what plants need

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I want to see a train-based one of these

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone parks their personal train in their yard?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Yeah, or at least train cars, with a way to get it onto the network for vacations and such. (Vacationing in a personal train car sounds fun)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a lot leaded fuel to be inhaling everyday.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a friend who lives in one of these neighborhoods but right in the middle of a city. Blows my mind that it was there the whole time and I just never noticed until I went to his house.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this is quite interesting. but also these fuckers are pretentious

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

There are a bunch of these around. In my old city we had two nearby. One was nice kind of like this, one was just a grass field out by cornfields.

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