{"id":4257,"date":"2016-10-30T19:13:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T02:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=4257"},"modified":"2016-10-30T19:13:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T02:13:20","slug":"trump-and-clinton-and-general-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=4257","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Clinton and general aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) is one of my favorite organizations, mainly due to their intense dedication to ongoing education and pilot safety.  They also do a lot of advocacy for the general aviation (GA) community.  <\/p>\n<p>This AOPA article provides a fascinating glimpse into the intersection of the current presidential election and GA:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aopa.org\/news-and-media\/all-news\/2016\/november\/pilot\/plane-politics\">Election 2016: Plane Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow, both Trump and Clinton have already spent millions of dollars to cover their campaign travels.  Even more wow: it costs them &#8220;between $5,000 and $14,000 per flight hour&#8221; (!!).  My brain boggles at this.  I pay $105 per hour to fly a Cessna 172.  You wouldn&#8217;t want to tour the country for a campaign in it, but still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The biggest wow?  To fly Air Force One, &#8220;the government places the price tag at $206,337 per flight hour.&#8221; (!!!)  You could just buy a new plane every hour and have money to spare.  (This figure includes security costs and presumably the staffing as a whole as well as the plane itself, fuel, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>The article also reports on the results of several questions AOPA posed to both presidential candidates.  Only one candidate replied.  Guess which one?<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.vogue.com\/r\/h_480,w_480\/2016\/09\/26\/00-holding-hilary-clinton.jpg\"><br \/>\n<i>Both candidates&#8217; campaign planes<\/i><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) is one of my favorite organizations, mainly due to their intense dedication to ongoing education and pilot safety. They also do a lot of advocacy for the general aviation (GA) community. This AOPA article provides a fascinating glimpse into the intersection of the current presidential election and GA: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4259,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions\/4259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}