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Excellent point, I had not considered the tax consequences. It still might make sense depending on what percentage of use was for charity...but if most of the use was personal then it would not make much sense.

There is one workaround here that I haven't seen mentioned, but also I've never asked if it is really valid. I used to fly charity flights for Angel Flight West and was similarly limited in only being able to write off direct costs -- no pro-rating of insurance, hanger, maintenance, etc. It...

Snapped this on the ground on the morning of July 4th, 2004 at Dodge City (DDC). I was trying to get to North Carolina, but frustrated by a solid line of thunderstorms from the gulf coast all the way to Canada. Only ended up getting to St. Louis that day. Anyway, I was in the FBO pulling my hair...

Thanks for the clarification. I've moved a couple markers to line up with the flight path on the rotorheads discussion (possibly from ADS-B/MLAT data?). They were moved so as to keep the background approximately correct as shown in the video. Also added the point where the rotorheads flight...

I've tried to figure out where the video was taken from and make estimates of the flight path...image from Google Earth attached. At the start of video you can see a ferry dock (?). Notice there's a floating support half-way across the ramp to shore. I think the video was taken along the shore...

I remember being in the SYR area a while back (10-15 years ago), and I think we were on with Center. Anyway, this Cessna calls up for flight following, gets radar identified and gives their destination. Then this exchange. Center: Cessna xxx, what's your heading? Cessna: One-two-zero Center...

I'm looking at the helicopter route chart for NYC. It's a pretty busy chart. Not being familiar, the airspace over Manhattan and Central Park appears to be Class B to surface, while there is Class G over East River below 1100 feet. But there's a helicopter route over Central Park...that's...