Comments by "Marvin Fine" (@torontovoice1) on "Why I Don’t Fly Private" video.

Well with all due respect the Andrew, I don't know if you ever flown on a charter. One of the things that you may not know is that all commercial flights must have two pilots, regardless of the size of the plane or the distance. A person can obviously buy his own plane, and there are many planes that are single pilot capable such as the Cessna citation family of private jets. But when you get into a more complex gift that can go long distances, you really do need to pilots because there's a lot more work to do. There's also of course safety concerns where for example if One pilot became incapacitated. Oh there's an interesting video of the owner of a King Air who has never flown a plane, and his pilot became incapacitated. He was able to land the plane no problem with no experience whatsoever, probably because he's seen it done hundreds of times by his pilot. He also knew how to work the radio. So when he called the tower, he declared a mayday, and he told the tower that he'd never flown a plane before and the only thing he needed to know was what was his incoming speed on full flaps in order not to stall based on the temperature of that day. So he brought the plane in a bit hot, in other words faster than he really needed to be and just cut the power right above the runway and landed. The tower gave him the longest runway I think it was 15,000 ft, we're talking about three miles so there's lots of room. You can't compare private aviation to scheduled airlines. The cheapest thing you could ever buy is a business class seat as you clearly pointed out. But sometimes if you live in a country that has poor service. For example you spoke about people going to Cyprus for tax purposes. Try going from larnaca to Toronto Pearson. You looking at about 15 to 25 hours depending on when you want to fly. Now to charter a plane with that kind of range it's probably around $6,000 an hour at least and you're 11 hours in the air, do the math it's a chunk! If you're going there for a speaking engagement, unless you're getting a couple hundred thousand dollars, it's not that viable! There's a lot of people that own planes and have fractional ownership planes, and of course people that have small planes. On the lower end, you can buy yourself a Cessna prop depending on the vintage probably under $100,000. Your cost to run it is probably around $120 an hour depending on how many hours a year you fly. So if you're flying around Europe, you have about a 6-hour endurance and you can go about 130 knots so you're not going that far. People do take little planes like that across the ocean, but you have to do a lot of hops. You're not old enough to remember, but the first dc-3s used to go all the way along from North America to the UK stopping in gander Newfoundland, Greenland Iceland, the Azores and then finally the UK. Sometimes you're going on a trip where you have to make 5 or 10 stops. So you can do it if you want to, but as they say in my language, it's a bit of a shlelp!
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