Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
I got a better one. Kudos to my wife and 1 year old girl who drove my jacket to the airport. They're the best. I'm a dumb ass.
At least it wasn't the hat. God forbid you ever forget the hat. I think that'll be my new screen name at the "new" place. "forgot my hat."
Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
Okay, so I went to Controller.com to see the latest and greatest on Cessna 172 prices and its much worse than I said and believe it or not slightly worse than the $275K. The newest model is the C172S... ready for this, $297-301K new. OUCH!
But you want to know whats really an ouch, you can buy a 2-3 year old Cessna 172S with the G1000 cockpit for around $140-$150K. OUCH! Nice resale value.
Luckily if you want one there are nearly 60 C172S' on the market right now. If you win the lottery tonight I have even better news, there are plenty of G550s on the used market. Back in 07 you could expect to pay as much as $5M over the new $60M price tag to just get a used one, if you could find one, so as to not wait years in line. Today, same 03-05 models have fallen to $35-$40M. Early 2000 GVs are even better, low $20M range. Thats a SAV depression. I wonder if its still $75K for initial GV training.
I still can't believe they can command a price like that for a freaking C172. Much less that chinese made piece of crap that they are calling the skycatcher. No thanks. Won't ever fly a chinese made trainer.
Speaing of commie stuff, I'm gonna buy that Su-37 that was for sale out of RFD. Daddy like! That thing uses like 2500 feet of runway before it goes vertical, a nice dark smoke trail, and loud enough to wake the dead.
In Soviet Russia, lottery wins you.
Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
One thing about sick policy changes, if we had a sick note requirement more pilots will fly sick just to skip the hassel of calling in sick. A vast majority of pilots are men which inherently means they don't go to the Doctor, even when passing a kidney stone... like some people I know.
The other thing about sick policy, REDACTED FOR THREAD's SAKE.
Perhaps we can start a bunch of talk about illegal job action but start doing it in russian like a few months ago. I'm all over that.
Seriously though... how freaking rediculous that one idiots post about "management is watching, all seeing, and all knowing" can cause people to run like a kid jumping into a flock of pigeons is beyond me.
Richard, if you're reading this: Thanks for the good merger so far. Don't screw it up now.
