healthmyths
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Obama says $1 billion will be raised by the $100/ flight:
The fee on corporate jets and other private passenger planes, for example, would raise about $1 billion a year to help finance the cost of air traffic control.
OK let's figure that out if it is possible!
There are a total of 11,000 corporate jets world wide with the majority in the USA.
Using 9,000 jets how many trips per day needed to generate $1 billion?
A) $100/trip divided into $1 billion is 10 million trips.
B) that's 1,111 trips/year/jet or 4 per day in a 5 day week.
C) At 1,000/trip and 400/mph that equals 10 hours/day in the air.
An impossibility as :
Given that your average corporate jet doesn't fly more then 250 hours per year
Part 91 Maximum Flight time per pilot [Archive] - PPRuNe Forums
A private jet can fly between 800 and 1,000 hours year.
The business of private aviation | Business Traveller
So Obama's "simple math" maybe hard to get $1 billion a year as it would require
the average jet to fly 2,777 hours! nearly double what they do now!!!
Again.. big numbers are NOT Obama's Forte!
The fee on corporate jets and other private passenger planes, for example, would raise about $1 billion a year to help finance the cost of air traffic control.
OK let's figure that out if it is possible!
There are a total of 11,000 corporate jets world wide with the majority in the USA.
Using 9,000 jets how many trips per day needed to generate $1 billion?
A) $100/trip divided into $1 billion is 10 million trips.
B) that's 1,111 trips/year/jet or 4 per day in a 5 day week.
C) At 1,000/trip and 400/mph that equals 10 hours/day in the air.
An impossibility as :
Given that your average corporate jet doesn't fly more then 250 hours per year
Part 91 Maximum Flight time per pilot [Archive] - PPRuNe Forums
A private jet can fly between 800 and 1,000 hours year.
The business of private aviation | Business Traveller
So Obama's "simple math" maybe hard to get $1 billion a year as it would require
the average jet to fly 2,777 hours! nearly double what they do now!!!
Again.. big numbers are NOT Obama's Forte!