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I’m in the same boat, except instead of driving, I decided to get my private pilots license. being able to hop in a plane whenever you want and not worry about traffic or tsa. I always thought it was super expensive and never knew what good it was to fly into a small airport with no car, however, now that I almost have it, I realize it’s a whole community. It’s not an easy process to get and somewhat high maintenance, but can be quite rewarding.
However, it’s not cheaper than commercial. Expect about 10k for the license. Renting a small plane is about $175/hour. Owning a plane only makes sense if you plan to fly more than 100 hrs a year.
You need to fly at least once a quarter and have faa checkride every 2 years.
The small planes are very weather dependent.
However, the first time you fly solo you really feel amazing!
I'm curious, don't you have the same problem with rental planes as with rental cars that while the cost of the pure travel time might not be so bad, what really gets you is that after you get somewhere, it just sits there, still costing money until you get back days later?
I know that engine on time is particularly expensive for airplanes whereas for rental cars it's no factor, but I would also expect the pure rental time to be expensive for airplanes if you use it to go on trips as opposed to standalone flights ending back at the home airfield?
Many rental planes are rented for engine on time only. You can’t push it too far (take the plane for a year for two hours of flight time) but you can do weeks. I’ve done it.
Despite a lot of ratings myself, I have still have had to cancel a fair number of trips because my plane lacks known icing protections. I’m comfortable shooting an approach to minimums but icing is such a capricious and limiting problem for light aircraft.
I’ve had a good experience with email octopus. Converted a client from spreadsheets and big Bcc lists with little problem. I’m not sure how big or how many lists you have.
I have some domains on migadu, one on mxroute, and one on purely mail. I have my Mai domain on google, and seriously thinking of eventually moving everything to purely mail.
I bought the mxroute lifetime membership, but the storage is kinda low (10g). Also Got bit with the migadu price mess in 2020. The purely mail model of pay for what you use makes sense to me. The developer is responsive and says it’s profitable.
I like the “land doesn’t disappear” quote. Here in the Great Lakes region the lakes have been up and there are absolutely people paying taxes on land that’s underwater. So sure, it may not disappear, but there are any number of ways for it to become useless. Unless zoning allows building on stilts and letting utilities run there.
That being said, I think we want to do something to avoid becoming a nation of land barons
I host some domains with migadu and have been pleased. For my newer, less used domains anyway.
I also bought a lifetime account in mxroute. It’s also fine, but wonky, as they’ve repurposed other tools to admin it.
However, some of my users have a lot of old email, and the storage options on migadu suck. I don’t want to pay more per month because two accounts need more space.
Lately, I found https://purelymail.com and put a domain with them. They’re neat because it’s usage based billing for storage. The billing model is exactly as I want, however, I think it’s a one man show, so reliability and longevity could be an issue.
Ultimately, I may use cloudflare email routing and migrate people to free gmail accounts. Sadly, the multiple logins (gmail and custom domain) will be confusing.
Woohoo! Me too! Now the kids are 8 and 10 and I’m looking to get back into the workforce. It’s amazing how few people respect the work involved being a full time parent.
