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Cirrus or C206/207. Keep in mind there's not a lot of business for small aircraft sight-seeing unless your located somewhere with some real impressive sights. Google Earth and drones pretty much accomplish the same thing without getting out of your boxer shorts.

There's a lot you can do with a Navajo. They are great work airplanes. You need to get yourself set up with a part 135 certificate though which will require jumping thru a few hoops.

Ok so you have no destinations that are any more desirable than others ?

You need to get a gig where you can pick your trips.

Seems I have over 100 of them sitting behind me at any given time but they pay my salary so I try to not notice.

We haven't had CPDLC for that long and we certainly haven't had Radius to Fix RNAV approaches for that long either. This is new stuff and we're not gonna see more of it anytime soon here in the USA if we have to depend upon the egregiously entrenched bureaucracy of the FAA to bring it to us...

I do enjoy the CPDLC when flying in Canada and Europe at work. It definitely cuts down on frequency congestion and having routings directly linked to your FMS is also safer. However, I certainly don't want the user fees that would come with it either. It's simple economics though - the airline...

It's mountain wave that I don't particularly care for especially when you run into conditions that mimic it out over the middle of the ocean.

Every major airline has day trips or turn lines. Out and back to the Carribbean or trans con routes. You're home every night. They're not even really that senior either as most of us don't like having to drive into work four days in a row. But if that floats your boat it's there.

I think your pay computation is a bit off. I don't see it taking 13 years to get to where you are now pay wise. But..... that depends on how fast you can get to a Major Airline. Most majors you'd be making 100k within 2.5 years and it just goes up from there as does the quality of life too with...

Ok, so you're saying there's absolutely nothing that RNAV curved track approaches and CPDLC equipment will help in the area of ATC ? And for what it's worth I am not abdicating nor endorsing privatization. I'm only saying it's inevitable.

Hey ! My wife's got that same bikini.

Tim, You're obviously not a very sophisticated IFR pilot if you truly believe that ATC does not become limited. Here's a little assignment for you - at KEWR there is a frequency (132.45) specifically labeled "Gate Hold", what might the purpose of that frequency be ?

Privatization costs more than the federal government ????? You're going to have to show me that.

It sounds likely you don't fly the same IFR routings that I do. Tell me where most of your IFR flights are from and to ?

They're not concerned with fixing it - just doing it cheaper and privatization definitely does that. We live in a world where cheap seems to always win.

Let me answer your question with a question - do you think the TSA should be privatized ? Why or why not would that be a good idea ?

That's true, unfortunately though those issues are a very small part of the problem. The largest part of the problem is in fact the ATC system - more specifically trying to get all those flights through an increasingly constricting system. Look, the amount of people wanting to travel is not...

The business model for privatization.

I fear it's only a matter of time before we all have to take a bite out of this sh*t sandwich. From a business standpoint it just makes so much sense. We'll dodge the bullet for as long as we can but I'm convinced it's unfortunately inevitable.