Your Ideal Aircraft Lets You Fit More Errands Into One Day

A pilot’s visit with his college son would not have been possible had he been driving.

Jonathan Welsh

Monday, October 23, 2023 at 06:37 PM ET

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Edited By: tccjeremy

There was not much traffic to contend with at KLEB. [Credit: Jonathan Welsh]

Key Takeaways:

The author utilizes a private aircraft, "Annie," to significantly reduce travel time, making a 5-hour drive into a little over an hour's flight for personal and work-related errands.
Flying provides a less stressful and more efficient travel experience by allowing the author to bypass common road delays such as traffic jams, construction, and accidents.
The flexibility and time-saving benefits of private air travel enable the author to combine multiple tasks in a single day and achieve a better work-life balance, which would be impossible with ground travel.

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When my wife and I bought our Commander 114B a year ago, we made a wish list of flying destinations as well as friends and relatives we could more easily visit thanks to this time-saving machine.

Then came the little indulgences, like a recent trip to Lebanon, New Hampshire (KLEB), to meet our older son for lunch and help him with some car trouble. He is in college in nearby Hanover and while the distance is driveable, it typically takes five hours. Annie the Commander can make it in just over one.