Don White wrote:
"Don White" wrote in message
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Jim wrote:
Loogypicker wrote:
On Jan 6, 11:54 am, "Don White" wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1160855.html
An overnight trip on a ferry is an alternative to a five hour flight?
A five hour flight?
NO, I think it is a 3 hour tour.

Air Canada schedule says flight takes 1.5 hours.


Mr Don Spoofer, are you a ****ing idiot or what? By the time you
drive to the airport, arrive 2 hrs before flight to get through
security, pick up your luggage, you are way beyond 3 hrs, probably
approaching 5 hrs, but if you were not so dumb, you would have realized
that my post had nothing to do with the time it takes to go from one
place to another, and was a joke about Gilligan's Island and their 3
hour tour.

You really are an idiot, did you start drinking before puberty, and were
you a AFS baby? It would make more sense than you are just brain dead

"Loogypicker" wrote in message
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On Jan 6, 11:54 am, "Don White" wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1160855.html

An overnight trip on a ferry is an alternative to a five hour flight?

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But you can't take your car on the plane.

--Mike

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:05:47 -0800 (PST), Loogypicker
wrote:

On Jan 6, 11:54*am, "Don White" wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1160855.html

An overnight trip on a ferry is an alternative to a five hour flight?

Five hours at six hundred MPH is three thousand miles. Your 20 MPH
ferry will take more than a week.

Casady

Richard Casady wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:05:47 -0800 (PST), Loogypicker
wrote:

On Jan 6, 11:54 am, "Don White" wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1160855.html
An overnight trip on a ferry is an alternative to a five hour flight?

Five hours at six hundred MPH is three thousand miles. Your 20 MPH
ferry will take more than a week.

Casady

The trip under discussion is 700 miles.

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:44:46 -0500, Jim wrote:

Richard Casady wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:05:47 -0800 (PST), Loogypicker
wrote:

On Jan 6, 11:54 am, "Don White" wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1160855.html
An overnight trip on a ferry is an alternative to a five hour flight?

Five hours at six hundred MPH is three thousand miles. Your 20 MPH
ferry will take more than a week.

Casady

The trip under discussion is 700 miles.

About an hour and a half flying time. Not trip time, flying time.
Started writing flying time in log books in 1964. It never did include
all the time hanging around the airport. I have a special [several
actually] slide rule for calculating flying time and it never heard of
waiting for luggage anywhere, although it actually does correct for
coriolis, not to mention the lies airspeed indicators are subject to.
I can believe overnight, as in a day and a half, for a ferry. Last
ferry I was on burned coal and had pistons, but it was that fast.[SS
Badger].

Casady

On Jan 7, 10:19*am, Richard Casady
wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:05:47 -0800 (PST), Loogypicker

wrote:
On Jan 6, 11:54 am, "Don White" wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1160855.html

An overnight trip on a ferry is an alternative to a five hour flight?

Five hours at six hundred MPH is three thousand miles. Your 20 MPH
ferry will take more than a week.

Casady

So do you think that as soon as you arrive at an airport you are
instantly transported at 600 mph to your destination and then
teleported to your hotel? You have to get to the airport with enough
time to check your baggage, then be at your gate a minimum of 45
minutes to an hour before your flight, get on the plane, plan on it
being overbooked so they have to take the time to try to get
passengers to take a later flight, taxi, take off, get delayed because
of sequencing into a large airport, land, taxi, get off at your gate,
get your luggage, then leave.

On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 07:49:11 -0800 (PST), Loogypicker
wrote:

On Jan 7, 10:19*am, Richard Casady
wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:05:47 -0800 (PST), Loogypicker

wrote:
On Jan 6, 11:54 am, "Don White" wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1160855.html

An overnight trip on a ferry is an alternative to a five hour flight?

Five hours at six hundred MPH is three thousand miles. Your 20 MPH
ferry will take more than a week.

Casady

So do you think that as soon as you arrive at an airport you are
instantly transported at 600 mph to your destination and then
teleported to your hotel? You have to get to the airport with enough
time to check your baggage, then be at your gate a minimum of 45
minutes to an hour before your flight, get on the plane, plan on it
being overbooked so they have to take the time to try to get
passengers to take a later flight, taxi, take off, get delayed because
of sequencing into a large airport, land, taxi, get off at your gate,
get your luggage, then leave.

Flight time is the time the plane is off the ground, just the obvious
Any pilot will tell you that. They all have to write down flight time
in a log book, and it sure as hell doesn't include time retrieving
luggage. Or sitting on your butt in the terminal. I started writing
down flight time in 1964.

Casady

On Jan 7, 3:21*pm, Richard Casady wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 07:49:11 -0800 (PST), Loogypicker





wrote:
On Jan 7, 10:19 am, Richard Casady
wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:05:47 -0800 (PST), Loogypicker

wrote:
On Jan 6, 11:54 am, "Don White" wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1160855.html

An overnight trip on a ferry is an alternative to a five hour flight?

Five hours at six hundred MPH is three thousand miles. Your 20 MPH
ferry will take more than a week.

Casady

So do you think that as soon as you arrive at an airport you are
instantly transported at 600 mph to your destination and then
teleported to your hotel? You have to get to the airport with enough
time to check your baggage, then be at your gate a minimum of 45
minutes to an hour before your flight, get on the plane, plan on it
being overbooked so they have to take the time to try to get
passengers to take a later flight, taxi, take off, get delayed because
of sequencing into a large airport, land, taxi, get off at your gate,
get your luggage, then leave.

Flight time is the time the plane is off the ground, just the obvious
Any pilot will tell you that. They all have to write down flight time
in a log book, and it sure as hell doesn't include time retrieving
luggage. Or sitting on your butt in the terminal. I started writing
down flight time in 1964.

Casady- Hide quoted text -

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So.....you don't consider the time spent at the airport as relevant? I
do, because it IS time, there is no time warp, and it is time taken
out of my day. Period.

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On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:05:47 -0800 (PST), Loogypicker
wrote:

On Jan 6, 11:54 am, "Don White" wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1160855.html

An overnight trip on a ferry is an alternative to a five hour flight?

This may be a guy trying to cash in on the federal handout for
ferries. There is a guy here who wants to start ferry service from Ft
Myers Beach to Sanibel and he said it was just to get the grant money.
Nobody can really point out the need. The Sanibel folks are saying
"... and then what"? The dock on their end is right in the middle of a
residential area with no services or easy way to get the people to a
tourist area.
Of course Sanibel folks would be happier if everyone who doesn't live
there would just stay home. They tolerate the shops on "Bullwinkle
drive" but they don't want you to go anywhere else.

This could be a replacement for the 'Cat' ferry that was just cancelled
between Yarmouth NS and Portland, Maine
Provincial govt' got tired of subsidizing that to the tune of millions each
year.

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On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:05:47 -0800 (PST), Loogypicker
wrote:

On Jan 6, 11:54 am, "Don White" wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1160855.html

An overnight trip on a ferry is an alternative to a five hour flight?

This may be a guy trying to cash in on the federal handout for
ferries. There is a guy here who wants to start ferry service from Ft
Myers Beach to Sanibel and he said it was just to get the grant money.
Nobody can really point out the need. The Sanibel folks are saying
"... and then what"? The dock on their end is right in the middle of a
residential area with no services or easy way to get the people to a
tourist area.
Of course Sanibel folks would be happier if everyone who doesn't live
there would just stay home. They tolerate the shops on "Bullwinkle
drive" but they don't want you to go anywhere else.

My paternal grandparents used to own 2 units at Sanibel Arms (I think that's
the place) 30 years ago. Those were fun vacations. Unfortunately, they sold
them before they passed, so there was nothing to hand down.

I certainly don't see the need for a ferry when you can already drive there.

--Mike