Re:OpenAirplane, FlyOtto Shut Down Operations
by film42 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:22PM
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I was recently visiting family in southern california and every FBO wanted a minimum 2 hour checkout, and a minimum 1 hour of ground school covering the LAX/SNA airspace. There was an additional checkout process to visit Catalina Island, and the FBOs "strongly discouraged" flying with pax and instructor before the checkout process had been completed. All to fly a C172. Crazy amount of friction. I'm grateful OA tried to solve this problem even though they weren't in my home area.
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Re:OpenAirplane, FlyOtto Shut Down Operations
by bsder on Thursday January 02, 2020 @11:40PM
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> There was an additional checkout process to visit Catalina Island
Normally, I'm with you on this but isn't Catalina somewhat unusual as an airport?
I don't completely remember what the issues were from my tour, but I thought it was somewhat treacherous.
This is similar to people wanting to fly into Burning Man. They explicitly discourage it unless you have significant desert flying experience and even then they discourage quite a few of the lower powered planes. (Deserts can be particularly bad for generating enough lift.)