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An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway (lemmy.ml)
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[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

These people are rich, but they're not the wealthy. These are your doctor types, not your billionaires. Doctors are paid well for sure, but they should be paid well.

[–] icedterminal@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A lot of people hear or read "plane" and assume like a million dollars. You can quite literally buy a single prop piston engine small plane for less than $100k USD. Yearly cost to maintain can be as little as a few thousand if flights hours are low.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You can get a Cessna 172 or even some nice Mooneys for around $50k. Unlike cars, even really old ones are kept in good running order because parts time out and have to be regularly maintained. Even if you want to buy a newer plane, a lot of people in GA use fractional ownership. That $200k newish Cirrus SR22 is fairly likely owned by 4 people splitting the bill. GA isn't cheap by any measure, but it also isn't exclusively for the wealthy. Upper middle class can get into it without too much issue. The people we should be raising everyone to, not tearing down.

[–] Mangosniper@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Idk, I would not go with "I am a doctor so I deserve money with which I can live a live that seems so unhinged to the median income earner that I not only can allow to have a big car with which probably only one human at a time is driving, no, I also have a plane whith which probably only me is flaying at once and I have access to my own airfield". They would still be on my menu right after the billionaires

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

That depends on the doctor. Not all are paid the same. Plastic surgeons get paid huge dollars for a lot of frivolous work. I'm with you there. But a brain surgeon or a heart surgeon... They deserve the big bucks. I don't care at all that they can afford a German car and a small general aviation plane. I care more about the working class not being able to afford a decent new car and the billionaire that has to decide which super car to drive that day.