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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: What is going on with 2024 the SCCBC season? Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:47:06 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 223 Message-ID: <v73naq$pngb$2@dont-email.me> References: <v5ev3p$1krq8$2@dont-email.me> <v5kg3d$2so01$1@dont-email.me> <v5mjo9$3clpa$1@dont-email.me> <v5nj1v$3iok7$1@dont-email.me> <v69dg2$3cp2n$1@dont-email.me> <v6ca7t$3ucbp$1@dont-email.me> <v6m759$1ur0u$3@dont-email.me> <v6mn1r$21ics$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:47:07 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="55baa77f40db9fb0c64fb726fb0f763d"; logging-data="843275"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+yi9Qb8TbHa6aN6c5tLDiB3wD8ULL0kMY=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:UVuHxlF8nel8NvMOzJv+3dalv+w= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <v6mn1r$21ics$1@dont-email.me> Bytes: 11152 On 7/10/2024 3:22 PM, -hh wrote: > On 7/10/24 10:51 AM, Tom Elam wrote: >> On 7/6/2024 4:42 PM, -hh wrote: >>> On 7/5/24 2:19 PM, Tom Elam wrote (plus merged posts): >>>> On 6/28/2024 8:04 PM, -hh wrote: >>>>> On 6/28/24 11:10 AM, Tom Elam wrote: >>>>>> On 6/27/2024 3:55 PM, Alan wrote: >>>>>>> On 2024-06-25 10:34, Tom Elam wrote: >>>>>>>> Dear Alan, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Last year, 2023, April-June, there 3 weekends, 9 races at SBBC. >>>>>>>> Total unique CW driver entries were 97, OW 37. These are typical >>>>>>>> for an entire season for 2021-2023. In April-June 2024 unique >>>>>>>> driver entries are 14 OW and 49 CW, about half prior years. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> These stats are from the SBBC season championship records. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Wow, quite the drop. What's going on, Alan? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> And, BTW, you entered 11 out of a 71 2021-2024 races. None last >>>>>>>> year of course, but also none this year and 11 out of 34 in >>>>>>>> 2021-22. Have you retired? I thought you were looking forward to >>>>>>>> getting back this year. Not so much? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So great to see you taking such an interest in my life, Liarboy! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I wonder if I might take a little interest in yours. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Done much flying lately? >>>>>> >>>>>> Well, yes. Two very different flavors. Full scale last 6 months, >>>>>> 36 hours logged including 2 family visit trips to Georgia, some >>>>>> CAP hours, and just passed a VFR checkride. The Christmas return >>>>>> flight from Georgia was IFR all the way home and an instrument >>>>>> approach into Indy Metro. >>>>> >>>>> Christmas of 2023, of course. >>>>> >>>>>> Now good for 2 another years on my BFR, taking me almost to my >>>>>> 80th birthday. At this time I am also IFR current and capable, but >>>>>> those are perishable skills. I'll be taking an IFR skills test >>>>>> checkride before the end of September. >>>>>> >>>>>> RC model flying has been active since the weather improved in >>>>>> April. Some of that is documented on my YouTube channel available at: >>>>>> >>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcvZXi-36GQkeHr0FdB4cTg >>>>>> >>>>>> My latest YT video is rendering as I write this. That one is on >>>>>> programming my 3 meter Fox sailplane for solo hand launch. It will >>>>>> be up on the channel by end of today. >>>>>> >>>>>> Tomorrow I am scheduled to go to the AMA annual Fun Fly in Muncie >>>>>> and do some instructing with beginning RC pilots. I also just >>>>>> passed my Part 107 Remote Pilot/commercial drone license FAA >>>>>> refresher, and good for another 2 on that front years too. >>>>>> >>>>>> So yes, done a lot of flying. Some airline flying in the near >>>>>> future too! >>>>> >>>>> Because even 36 hours droning along at a Cessna's 125mph cruising >>>>> speed is just 4500 miles: enough to cross the pond once...but not >>>>> back. >>>>> >>>>>> We will be flying to Vancouver next month to catch a train to >>>>>> Calgary then flying home from there. August takes us to France, >>>>>> Luxembourg and a Viking river cruise to Basel. Flying home from >>>>>> Zurich. Ten day trip in all. So still traveling too. >>>>> >>>>> Oh, so now its a ten day trip for what previously was a twelve day >>>>> Paris-Rhine cruise claimed back in February? /s >>>>> >>>>>> How about you, doing any racing lately? I know the answer to that, >>>>>> at least for SBBC events. Null, zero, nada since 2022. Going >>>>>> anywhere outside Canada this year? >>>>> >>>>> Life invariably takes different turns. My last travel comment here >>>>> was in early 2023, that we were looking (in 2023) to be making up >>>>> for our CoVid travel lull, but that doesn't mean that it all went >>>>> as had been hoped for: indeed, it could have changed. Cancelled >>>>> outright, or even perhaps upgraded to be in First Class instead of >>>>> Coach on all of that year's international flights! /s >>>>> >>>>> Same applies for 2024 as well, for life invariably throws curve >>>>> balls; this is why the advice was to 'do the hard stuff' while >>>>> one's body (& finances) are healthy enough to be still able to do >>>>> what one wishes. Otherwise, one can be pushing 80 and renting a car >>>>> is no longer trivial, so one can get increasingly constrained to >>>>> guided tours on cruise ships. >>>>> >>>>> In any event, a week on the Rocky Mountaineer and the >>>>> aforementioned Rhine cruise sounds to be in the rough ballpark of >>>>> ($7500+air)/pp, so it does seem like Tommy is perhaps finally >>>>> breaking out of his prior fiscal constraint, as I'd long advised. >>>>> Yay, you!. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -hh >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Ten was a wrong number for Europe. It IS 12 days plus 2 for to-from >>>> travel that I did not include in a prior post. >>> >>> But also plus +3 days pre-tour in Paris, as you've mentioned before >>> and mentioned again below. >>> >>> >>>> The Canada trip is a package tour via a local company. It includes >>>> several side trips, most meals, air, and several nights in the >>>> Fairmont Banff Springs and others of similar quality prior to Banff >>>> Springs. Check the rates on that hotel. $11,990 for 2. Sadly, one of >>>> the people, a good friend at that, was scheduled to go but died very >>>> suddenly. The wife has to cancel. It may still be an open >>>> reservation for two. Interested? Starts July 20. >>> >>> >>> We've been meaning to get back to the Canadian Rockies, but that >>> start date hits a schedule conflict. Plus we learned last month that >>> we're out of shape for any decent hiking in the Rockies (not that >>> this rail journey would really have much), so not enough pre-trip >>> prep time either. >>> >>> >>>> The Europe trip including air is a bit over $10,000 plus 3 nights on >>>> our own in a Paris hotel at $300/night, plus meals, local >>>> transportation and sundries. Likely to also come to about $12,000. >>> >>> Figured about that, as a cabin on Viking is ~$3800/pp on its own. >>> >>> >>>> Your $7,500 pp is spot-on but includes airfare. >>> >>> As you know, there's several rail journey options to choose from, of >>> varying lengths; I'd conservatively parameterized to a higher end >>> tour than what you actually chose. >>> >>> >>>> We also just this week scheduled a trip to Luddington MI to spend a >>>> week with some good friends at their cabin. I'll be flying us up >>>> there, only about $600 R/T for air plus taking them out to a VERY >>>> nice restaurant or two. >>>> >>>> We also have the annual ski trip of course. 2024 is a bit of a >>>> splurge but not that different from many prior years. >>> >>> I've not chatted skiing lately with a colleague who spends 2-3 weeks >>> in Vail each season to know current rates, but I'd expect that the >>> Epic is still just ~$1K/pp and that condo/AirBNB rates are quite >>> variable. Even so, $10K probably covers ~3 weeks when driving. So >>> without the ski trip, ballpark $25K for 2024, including the Florida >>> bit (next below): >>> >>> {merge} >>> > >>> > Second reply. I just updated the 2024 travel diary and forgot to >>> > include 2 January Florida weeks. We stayed with friends week 1, so >>> > that kept the cost down. I think the whole trip was only maybe $3-4k >>> > all-in. >>> >>> >>> {merge} >>> > >>> > Back again. FYI the club 182 cruises at 160+ mph, not 125. >>> >>> So its an 5,760 miles upper limit. That's still not enough to cross >>> the pond & back...and one still can't nap (safely) when at the controls. >>> >>> >>> > It's a little over 2.5 hours including taxi time, with no headwind. >>> > Delta makes it in 1:30 of droning on in a B737 but them you have a >>> 1+ > hour drive to my sister's place in Woodstock, TSA hassles, ... >>> >>> TSA Pre makes airport security pretty trivial. And since someone >>> else is driving, its easy to take a nap, watch a movie, read a book... >>> ========== REMAINDER OF ARTICLE TRUNCATED ==========