▲ 949 ▼ An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway (lemmy.ml) submitted 3 years ago* by HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world 239 comments fedilink hide all child comments Location on a map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.1486108&mlon=-88.5628734&zoom=17#map=17/42.14861/-88.56287
[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 14 points 3 years ago (3 children) You won't commute with a plane like this lol. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml [S] 13 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child) Unless you live in an extremely remote place not served by roads. The arctic for example. It's not technically commuting as in going to and from your 9 to 5, but plenty of small northern communities are still completely dependent on small gravel runways or even bushplanes for things like going to the doctor or dentist, or really anything they need to go to a city for, which is a lot of things. I actually thought this was a similar situation, that they're so out in the middle of nowhere flying is significantly more convenient than driving. But then I took a look at the map and realized that they're not far from Chicago and are within easy driving distance from nearby smaller towns, which makes this way harder to justify though still mildly interesting. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] oatscoop@midwest.social 10 points 3 years ago* One of the first things my instructor told me was "I hope you're getting your license for fun or a job, and not planning on commuting. Eventually you'll get stuck somewhere due to the weather." Heavy, powerful commercial jets have deicing systems. They also have the benefit of an entire team of air traffic controllers on takeoff and landing -- and they still get grounded by weather. Small planes are grounded by such inclement weather as "fog", "thunderstorms", "high winds", and "low cloud cover". permalink fedilink source parent [–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 years ago* Apparently the CEO of Boeing does Link permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml [S] 13 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child) Unless you live in an extremely remote place not served by roads. The arctic for example. It's not technically commuting as in going to and from your 9 to 5, but plenty of small northern communities are still completely dependent on small gravel runways or even bushplanes for things like going to the doctor or dentist, or really anything they need to go to a city for, which is a lot of things. I actually thought this was a similar situation, that they're so out in the middle of nowhere flying is significantly more convenient than driving. But then I took a look at the map and realized that they're not far from Chicago and are within easy driving distance from nearby smaller towns, which makes this way harder to justify though still mildly interesting. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] oatscoop@midwest.social 10 points 3 years ago* One of the first things my instructor told me was "I hope you're getting your license for fun or a job, and not planning on commuting. Eventually you'll get stuck somewhere due to the weather." Heavy, powerful commercial jets have deicing systems. They also have the benefit of an entire team of air traffic controllers on takeoff and landing -- and they still get grounded by weather. Small planes are grounded by such inclement weather as "fog", "thunderstorms", "high winds", and "low cloud cover". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 10 points 3 years ago* One of the first things my instructor told me was "I hope you're getting your license for fun or a job, and not planning on commuting. Eventually you'll get stuck somewhere due to the weather." Heavy, powerful commercial jets have deicing systems. They also have the benefit of an entire team of air traffic controllers on takeoff and landing -- and they still get grounded by weather. Small planes are grounded by such inclement weather as "fog", "thunderstorms", "high winds", and "low cloud cover". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 years ago* Apparently the CEO of Boeing does Link permalink fedilink source parent
