It's the one with the lose nut behind the controls.

 

SOCAL FTW
DTW/NYC/MSP/SEA/SLC nope, ATL PTC direct only.

 

Id probably end up killing my self in a Mooney and add to their statistics. Cool that you can do it though.

 

That's why Flight Pulse says I use the Mooney AP 99.9% of the time.

 

My wife’s side of the family all live on airport communities with planes. None are IFR rated but have thousands of hours over decades. I’m always humbled when I fly with my dad in law VFR. He knows his small airplane poo poo and it shows. It’s a different world.

 

Are you able to park without breaking the bank at LAX? I looked into what it would cost to park at LGA or JFK.. Lets just say the ramp fees plus parking, plus fuel just made that a non starter for the GA commute for me. (was semi seriously looking at buying a friends M20)

 

Unusually good weather across the U.S. I imagine with an irop or weather, and Thanksgiving approaching, the PSC loss will rear its ugly head.

 

Most guys I know who fly their planes to work based in socal either fly to Hawthorne and Uber to LAX or try to do Ontario trips.

 

Hawthorne airport, KHHR. It's a block and half from the green line train, one stop and a quick bus ride, you're at LAX terminal. It's $30/night to park ($15 for airline crew members) and they waive the ramp fee if you buy 10 gal of gas. It's not cheap but very convenient. I used to have a tiedown at HHR and park my airport car on the tiedown, but it turns out to be way cheaper and faster to use the FBO.

It takes me north of 5hrs to drive to LAX with light traffic and just over an hour to fly my plane. I can drive to the closest airport that serves LAX (no Delta or connection service) but I think they’re down to 2 flights a day; there were like 10 or more when we moved here.

Expensive, yes, but I much prefer to suck on my cup of coffee for an hour on autopilot than deal with the idiots on the road for 5 or more hours each way.

 

I don’t think ED would mind if I flew my Chinook in to ATL for my commute and parked it on the ramp next to headquarters and the museum, blowing crap all over the place , shut down , secure and then get an Uber or take the Delta Employee shuttle to the terminal would he ?😂