Comments on: By the wings of angels http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=892 Online perspective from the editors of "AOPA Pilot". Wed, 22 May 2013 00:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Parth http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=892&cpage=1#comment-67537 Parth Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:19:41 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=892#comment-67537 I am delighted that AOPA is using their media expertise to promote Pilots n Paws. An event like this goes a long way to promote the positive impression of GA.

If not planning already, can AOPA go one step further and help quantify and promote the overall success of this event?

Today I flew 4.1 hours total transporting a wonderful black lab from southern IL to Madison WI on my third PnP trip. Using a base rate of $140/hr for a Piper Arrow, the cost was $578 flying approx. 400 mn. If there were 5K missions like this (which I think is the average), GA pilots would have flown a total of 2 million miles at $3M of their own cost for this worthy cause.

Would not make this a great story? And to pre-empt the question – no, given all the threats and poor perception GA is facing I am not ashamed to beat our own chest saying we contribute to the good of society in this manner.

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