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The OSH NOTAM made navigating the TFR safe and efficient.
your SO. The clubs are still lost and your SO chartered a King Air flown by two GA pilots. They offer gourmet sandwiches, strawberry shortcake and an extra dirty vodka martini (or three), all served in glassware etched with the King Air’s tail number. The plane has a spotless potty that only your SO can use, plenty of legroom, and they get home six hours before you. Your SO is happy. Your clubs are delivered to your home four days later minus your Cleveland lob wedge, Callaway Epic driver and a box of embossed ProV1’s. You are not happy.
Riffraff
noun.
People regarded as disreputable, bad-mannered or disorderly.
The freedom to aviate in our own aircraft across states and even continents on our schedule is a valuable privilege and not something guaranteed in other parts of the world. Our hypothetical trip would take 3.5 hours in the Duke. Adding a fuel/potty stop to keep the reserve fuel higher and the bladder level lower would add an hour. Even so, we would arrive in half the time of our airline adventure and it would be fun. We could also bring along all the gels, liquids and hunting gear we want. And we would not be exposed to the riffraff now flying commercially.
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