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Re:Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern person... by gwbas1c on Monday August 05, 2024 @05:20PM (#41165729)
> In the US, trips that are 50-300 miles are almost all done by car because that distance is too short for commercial airlines and too far for public transportation.

About once a month, I make a 90 mile (180 round trip) drive to see family. The drive is usually 90-100 minutes.

Would GA really save time? It's half an hour for me to get to a GA airport, and then roughly half an hour to get to my family from the other GA airport. And then, we'd need to arrange ground transportation.

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Re:Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern person... by n_ermosh on Monday August 05, 2024 @05:26PM (#41165771)
In your case, you do start to approach the point where time-wise it's about equal. But, 30 minutes to your nearest GA airport is on the long side, most people (300M) live within 15 minutes of one (don't have a direct source for that--it's based on analysis we did of locations of airports and population densities)
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Re:Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern person... by spaceywilly on Monday August 05, 2024 @05:33PM (#41165821)
You will also need to account for the time to pre-flight the plane, and fuel it up, possibly wait on the taxiway, and possibly divert around weather (including to an entirely different airport if necessary).
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Re:Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern person... by gwbas1c on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @04:47AM (#41168935)
Makes a lot of sense.

Also, I have kids. They all puked in the car when they were babies, and needed sudden pee breaks when they were potty training.

You can't just pull over a plane.

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