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[–] [email protected] 309 points 11 months ago (75 children)

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 135 points 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (13 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago (5 children)

He already did make a video on it lol

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 11 months 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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[–] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (4 children)

The smell and noise would be unbearable.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months 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] 20 points 11 months ago (8 children)

That's where you're wrong, kiddo.

Source: I live in an apartment.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

Eh, if you're living in a air park like that one, chances are you're a planespotter or an aircraft owner/pilot yourself, I'll wager the sound is music to those guys ears. I certainly doubt anyone will complane, I mean they should know exactly what they signed up for.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

Studies to highway and airport neighbourhoods say otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

It has what plants need

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I want to see a train-based one of these

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Everyone parks their personal train in their yard?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

this is quite interesting. but also these fuckers are pretentious

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months 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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