I found this site, and I am frankly appalled that so many people with disposable income congregate here to talk about squandering thousands on private planes while others struggle to
buy bus passes. There is so much selfishness in America. Crying social needs go unmet while you
gaze into your navels and buy these expensive toys. Open your hearts to the needy!
I found this site, and I am frankly appalled that so many people with disposable income congregate here to talk about squandering thousands on private planes while others struggle to
buy bus passes. There is so much selfishness in America. Crying social needs go unmet while you
gaze into your navels and buy these expensive toys. Open your hearts to the needy!
Dear Mr. Jones,
Before sending this scolding message, you ought first to have asked how much money we donate to charity each year. (In my case, it was more than I spent on flying.) How much money did you donate last year?
One might also wonder how much money you spent to buy your computer. By the same logic, that would appear to have been a rather selfish purchase on your part.
Sincerely,
Roger Freedman
I found this site, and I am frankly appalled that so many people with disposable income congregate here to talk about squandering thousands on private planes while others struggle to
buy bus passes. There is so much selfishness in America. Crying social needs go unmet while you
gaze into your navels and buy these expensive toys. Open your hearts to the needy!
And what of the Cirrus employees who need to put food on their plate? Or the mechanics of the aviation world? Fuel distributors and parts manufacturers? FBOs and the FAA for goodness sakes.
Most of us have our planes for a combination of personal and corporate uses and this allows us to better run our businesses while spending more of our free time with family rather than in some airport or automobile trapped in a traffic jam. My business is more flexible and profitable which in turn flows to the people who work with me. Plus I get to spend more quality time with my children.
I give 10% of my after tax earnings to charities of one form or another and feel none of the guilt you are intending to ascribe to someone evil enough to own a personal aircraft. Most of the discussions on this board are safety related which offends you somehow.
I’m offended that you haven’t sold your PC and cancelled your internet service so that you can give the money to the wino down the street. You’ll feel better and we won’t have to listen to yet another lecture from someone who clearly doesn’t understand all the people who benefit directly from personal aviation.
I found this site, and I am frankly appalled that so many people with disposable income congregate here to talk about squandering thousands on private planes while others struggle to
buy bus passes. There is so much selfishness in America. Crying social needs go unmet while you
gaze into your navels and buy these expensive toys. Open your hearts to the needy!
If you think this is bad, you should check out the Bonanza owners web page…Drop in on them and tell us what you think!
P.S. Should you not be feeding the poor instead of searching the web…Ed
I found this site, and I am frankly appalled that so many people with disposable income congregate here to talk about squandering thousands on private planes while others struggle to
buy bus passes. There is so much selfishness in America. Crying social needs go unmet while you
gaze into your navels and buy these expensive toys. Open your hearts to the needy!
Well, I’ve never seen an airplane walk into a store and buy anything, but I can assure you that there are several hundred people employed by Cirrus and its suppliers that do that with our money every day and are quite grateful to us for sending our money to them. I am quite certain that more “crying social needs” get met by innovative companies like Cirrus that create new technology, opportunities, and jobs, than by dropping funds into your local church coffers. The city of Deluth is very happy that Cirrus exists, you can be sure of that.
Many of us who purchase aircraft use them in the furtherance of businesses that we created and which also contribute to the economy and general wealth of everyone. I get more work because I can use an airplane to expand my market and address my customers’ needs. I can employ more people, and they are very glad for their paychecks. They do not want anyone to hand them bus fare. They are too productive and proud for handouts. They work hard, earn good money, and I hope they buy airplanes in the future as well.
Many of us are very active people who participate in and contribute to local causes and are active in our communities. (I personally have recorded textbooks for the blind every Wednesday night for over 15 years.) Sure there are some idle rich in this country. But they are far outnumbered by the wealthy who flat our work their asses off and create cascading wealth, jobs, and new technology in the process.
Just look to the former USSR and ask yourself how the experiment in distributing wealth and not rewarding innitiative worked out for them.
Your heart is in the right place but your brain needs to catch up and think clearly.
Gordon
I found this site, and I am frankly appalled that so many people with disposable income congregate here to talk about squandering thousands on private planes while others struggle to
buy bus passes. There is so much selfishness in America. Crying social needs go unmet while you
gaze into your navels and buy these expensive toys. Open your hearts to the needy!
And what of the Cirrus employees who need to put food on their plate? Or the mechanics of the aviation world? Fuel distributors and parts manufacturers? FBOs and the FAA for goodness sakes.
Most of us have our planes for a combination of personal and corporate uses and this allows us to better run our businesses while spending more of our free time with family rather than in some airport or automobile trapped in a traffic jam. My business is more flexible and profitable which in turn flows to the people who work with me. Plus I get to spend more quality time with my children.
I give 10% of my after tax earnings to charities of one form or another and feel none of the guilt you are intending to ascribe to someone evil enough to own a personal aircraft. Most of the discussions on this board are safety related which offends you somehow.
I’m offended that you haven’t sold your PC and cancelled your internet service so that you can give the money to the wino down the street. You’ll feel better and we won’t have to listen to yet another lecture from someone who clearly doesn’t understand all the people who benefit directly from personal aviation.
Please pass the grey poupon.
I wonder if they plate those SR22 scale models in gold???
Sorry for the daliance, now I gotta get back to WORK, to pay the TAXES which permit YOU to surf the web, collect your check, and harrass honest achievers in the business world. The 15 minutes it took you (I’m being generous), to find this site, assess the content, and then write your flame could have probably fed a family for a day if you were truly contributing to society, through your time and efforts.
I found this site, and I am frankly appalled that so many people with disposable income congregate here to talk about squandering thousands on private planes while others struggle to
buy bus passes. There is so much selfishness in America. Crying social needs go unmet while you
gaze into your navels and buy these expensive toys. Open your hearts to the needy!
Sorry, Deacon, but the Vikings had a better defense in the early 1970s than did your choking Rams. I understand your rage to all things Minnesotan. But Cirrus has nothing to do with it.
How’s Rosy Grier?
I found this site, and I am frankly appalled that so many people with disposable income congregate here to talk about squandering thousands on private planes while others struggle to
buy bus passes. There is so much selfishness in America. Crying social needs go unmet while you
gaze into your navels and buy these expensive toys. Open your hearts to the needy!
I found this site, and I am frankly appalled that so many people with disposable income congregate here to talk about squandering thousands on private planes while others struggle to
buy bus passes. There is so much selfishness in America. Crying social needs go unmet while you
gaze into your navels and buy these expensive toys. Open your hearts to the needy!
My guess is that many here have given more to charity than you ever made in your life.
Denis
I found this site, and I am frankly appalled that so many people with disposable income congregate here to talk about squandering thousands on private planes while others struggle to
buy bus passes. There is so much selfishness in America. Crying social needs go unmet while you
gaze into your navels and buy these expensive toys. Open your hearts to the needy!
Mr. Jones:
Perhaps you should engage your brain before engaging your mouth (or computer.)
If you actually spent the time to get to know some of the people that you are so quick to criticize, you would find that by and large these are hard working people that create much for the economy. How many people do you think derive their employment and livelihood from the companies owned by the people here, the company that builds our planes, the companies that supply the company that builds our planes, etc, etc?
How exactly do you think we achieved a position in life to afford a $305,000 aircraft? Do you believe one day we just woke up and there it was? While you may believe we spend all day “gazing” wondering how to spend our money, the fact is we spend most of our time working hard at running our companies, and keeping our staff employed and bringing home paychecks.
And where exactly would your charities be without the donations made by people like us? And without people like us, who exactly would be paying most of the taxes in this country? Taxes which, in addition to other things, support all of your precious charities and programs.
Or perhaps you have never heard of Angel Flight or Miracle Flight. Or maybe you are just too bitter to find out, or too busy criticizing others.
I found this site, and I am frankly appalled that so many people with disposable income congregate here to talk about squandering thousands on private planes while others struggle to
buy bus passes. There is so much selfishness in America. Crying social needs go unmet while you
gaze into your navels and buy these expensive toys. Open your hearts to the needy!
Mr. “You didn’t get it from me”: I think you’ve obviously achieved your level of ingnorance. If you think that anyone on this site cares about your opinion, you’ve got another thing coming.
I am almost ashamed of myself for responding to your post thereby justifying it, but for many years I have used my airplane for charity.
I have flown about dozen Angel Flight missions. Three of which were ‘transplant’ flights where we flew the transplant recipient to the hospital in time for their surgery. As I’m sure you know, these flights almost always happen in the middle of the night: My average take-off time was 3 AM, and you get no warning. Due to the potential lack of sleep issues, we always flew these missions with a second qualified pilot.
I have flown numerous small children and babies who’s parents could not otherwise afford the cost to transport the child and themselves to a hospital or treatments center where they could get the best, or in some cases only, care for their child. (Odd, these children whined less than you.)
As you of course also know, the entire cost for the trip (fuel, landing fees, etc.) comes out of the pilot’s pocket. I’ve even known some cases where the pilot paid for the taxi to bring the patient ‘the last mile’ to the hospital.
If our interested in these organizations just do a search for the Air Care Alliance or Angel Flight web sites. They are very easy to find. I’m sure they would appreciate your assistance and support.
I also have good pilots friends who have flown mercy missions to south Florida and the Bahamas with supplies needed after hurricanes have ravaged those areas.
In closing, I do not know a single pilot who is ashamed to have worked hard enopugh to earn and save the money to buy a plane.
Marty (my real name)
I found this site, and I am frankly appalled that so many people with disposable income congregate here to talk about squandering thousands on private planes while others struggle to
buy bus passes. There is so much selfishness in America. Crying social needs go unmet while you
gaze into your navels and buy these expensive toys. Open your hearts to the needy!
… Crying social needs go unmet while you gaze into your navels and buy these expensive toys. Open your hearts to the needy!
Gaze into my navel? I wish. Haven’t seen that rascal in about ten years.
-Mike
Hi Donald,
You don’t need to sugar-coat it; please tell us how you really feel. 
Bob
Please pass the grey poupon.
I wonder if they plate those SR22 scale models in gold???
Sorry for the daliance, now I gotta get back to WORK, to pay the TAXES which permit YOU to surf the web, collect your check, and harrass honest achievers in the business world. The 15 minutes it took you (I’m being generous), to find this site, assess the content, and then write your flame could have probably fed a family for a day if you were truly contributing to society, through your time and efforts.
I found this site, and I am frankly appalled that so many people with disposable income congregate here to talk about squandering thousands on private planes while others struggle to
buy bus passes. There is so much selfishness in America. Crying social needs go unmet while you
gaze into your navels and buy these expensive toys. Open your hearts to the needy!