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[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 311 points 1 year ago

/c/fuckcars : "use some other form of transportation!"

Also /c/fuckcars: "No! Not like that!"

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[-] FlashZordon@lemmy.world 137 points 1 year ago

Must be lovely to hear your neighbor fire up their Cessna at 7 in the morning for their morning commute.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Enjoy being stuck behind the asshole in a C130 with trucknutz.

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[-] IanAtCambio@lemm.ee 109 points 1 year ago

Little known fact. Airplanes still use leaded fuel. I’ll bet that the blood levels for all of these families are elevated. Not a great place to raise a kid.

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 73 points 1 year ago

Clarification: Only piston aircraft require leaded fuel. Which is unfortunately a pretty big part of the general aviation market, but similarly sized turboprops do also exist (though are more expensive) and it doesn't apply to modern commercial aviation at all.

[-] Fox@pawb.social 52 points 1 year ago

Further clarification: Only gasoline powered aircraft without the Auto Fuel STC require leaded fuel.

Although, there is an initiative underway to fully phase out leaded avgas. G100UL is the FAA approved formulation. Exciting time and long overdue.

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[-] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 19 points 1 year ago

Yep, and the FAA is taking it's sweet time to approve a new unleaded fuel for general aviation that shows a lot of promise called G100UL. It's estimated it could take another 6-9 years. Otherwise it's currently only approved for specific planes and not available at most airports and aerodromes.

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[-] FireTower@lemmy.world 90 points 1 year ago

This is like looking at a yet to be made Tom Scott video.

[-] Guest_User@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

He already did make a video on it lol

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tom scott has made a video on everything, including this very thread.

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[-] awake01@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago

http://www.casadeaero.net/text/about.php

Many pilots do this as a means of reducing the costs associated with operating out of areas with high hangar and service costs. This is Northwest of Chicago near Rockford. The about page explains a lot of the obvious questions.

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[-] Quills@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 year ago

This exists?! Oh my That's not just mildly, it's really interesting!

[-] UFO64@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

They are somewhat common-ish if you know where to look. I fly by one a lot!

https://mapio.net/images-p/101437851.jpg

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[-] Damage@feddit.it 35 points 1 year ago

"honey, Joe's wife is sick, can you take care of control tower duty today?"

[-] Synthead@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

These little strips don't use a tower. Pilots communicate with each other on unicom.

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[-] irotsoma@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

The smell and noise would be unbearable.

[-] Leeps@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

It's obviously for plane nerds that won't mind.

[-] nyoooom@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Depends, looks like small planes, and even if 10 come and go everyday you would quickly stop hearing them at all (the brain is very good at ignoring useless stimuli)

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Studies to highway and airport neighbourhoods say otherwise.

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[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 23 points 1 year ago

See, there are some weird types like me who actually like the smell of 100LL, and don't mind plane noise. I'd live there. But yeah, it's definitely not for everyone.

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[-] shasta@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

And they can't even afford an HOA to water the grass by the runway.

[-] wieson@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago
[-] Serisin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

It has what plants need

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[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 year ago

I want to see a train-based one of these

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

Everyone parks their personal train in their yard?

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago

Yeah, or at least train cars, with a way to get it onto the network for vacations and such. (Vacationing in a personal train car sounds fun)

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[-] scytale@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

That's a lot leaded fuel to be inhaling everyday.

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[-] otacon239@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago

I have a friend who lives in one of these neighborhoods but right in the middle of a city. Blows my mind that it was there the whole time and I just never noticed until I went to his house.

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[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

this is quite interesting. but also these fuckers are pretentious

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

There are a bunch of these around. In my old city we had two nearby. One was nice kind of like this, one was just a grass field out by cornfields.

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