Free? It costs the taxpayers about $25 bucks every time you key the mike. Regards, Bill Hannahan wfhannahan@yahoo.com --- On Sun, 7/17/11, N66mg@aol.com <N66mg@aol.com> wrote: From: N66mg@aol.com <N66mg@aol.com> Subject: [LML] Re: Certified vs Experimental Flight Hours To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Sunday, July 17, 2011, 8:11 AM It's hard to believe that most pilots don't use it at all, flight following...I can't figure that one out...It's free and keeps you up to date and watches out for you...In southern California it would be nuts not to use it with all the traffic here Michael n66mg n7sz 94%   In a message dated 7/14/2011 9:47:39 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, bbradburry@bellsouth.net writes: Ron, That gives an interesting picture, but you should remember that you must either file IFR or request flight following to show up on flight aware.  I don’t think many experimental pilots do that.  I would probably estimate that at any given time that 90%+ of the experimental planes aloft will not show up. Bill B -----Original Message----- From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Ron Laughlin Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:51 PM To: lml@lancaironline.net Subject: [LML] Re: Certified vs Experimental Flight Hours Hmmm, You might want to check FlightAware's website from time to time and see how many experimentals are in the system at any given time. I find only 2 Glassairs and one Lancair at the moment. There are a bunch of certifieds (62 Cirrus's and 51 SkyHawks, etc.). <http://flightaware.com/live/aircrafttype/> Ron On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Ted Noel <tednoel@cfl.rr.com> wrote: > Interesting observation, but not adjusted for age. Experimentals are > generally newer than production A/C, and those thousands of hours represent > how many last year???? It's possible for both observations to be true. > > Ted Noel > N540TF > > On 7/13/2011 8:19 AM, rwolf99@aol.com wrote: > > Randy writes: > > <> certifieds...>> > > I don't see how that could be.  One year at Oshkosh there was a special > display area for homebuilts with over 1000 hours.  There were just a > handful.  Bill Hannahan's Lancair was one of them.  On the other side of the > runway were thousands of spam-cans, all certified.  I'll bet that none had > less than 1000 hours, and most had more than 2000 hours. > > Further, every experimental for sale in Trade-a-Plane or ASO.com seems to > have between 100 and maybe 500 hours.  Virtually all spam cans have > thousands. > > As to the real question -- do homebuilt owners fly their airplanes more > hours per year than spam can owners -- I have no idea. > > - Rob Wolf > > p.s.  I do not use the term "spam can" as pejorative.  I used to own one and > had a lot of fun with it. > > > ________________________________ > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1516/3764 - Release Date: 07/14/11 -- For archives and unsub http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/lml/List.html -- For archives and unsub http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/lml/List.html