So for a lot of people they've not had the opportunity to even experience any kind of
private aviation. The only part they know is going over to the big terminal, going through TSA, and
the security search, and they don't realize that there's a whole other world on the other side of
most commercial airports called the private side. And we roll up to a security gate like this one
put in our access code. We're part of the secured area because everybody's already been pre-cleared.
You know these days with covid coming together with all the challenges that we have
about our concern for our personal health, safety, privacy, everything that goes into
traveling these days. Guys i gotta tell you i mean it's like you know this is the perfect time to
consider how you're going to live going forward after covid when it comes to travel. I'm going
to share with you five secrets about private aviation that could totally change your life.
So we're gonna go fly the Diamond DA62 today. This is one of my favorite airplanes, I just
absolutely love this plane. Not only is the most amazing modern marvel, but it's just so
easy to use. It's fast, it's efficient, and it's gorgeous as well. When we talk about airplanes
we find that a lot of people have had limited exposure and they immediately think of let's say
an expensive jet, very expensive, or maybe a very old antique style Cessna
that their grandfather had, and they just have no exposure to what's actually taken place in the
advancement of technology in personal travel. We now have completely automated, digital, efficient,
safe, easy to use modern airplanes like this one that make the idea of personal
travel something radically different. And when you combine that advancement and technology
with you know the weird challenges we have in the world right now with covid, these two things
together should be a starting point for a lot of people to really ask the question, "I wonder if i
should really look into private aviation" and the answer is, if you think you might should,
you probably should. Now what i'm doing is I'm actually flying the airplane using
the electronics instead of actually physically myself, that's called an autopilot
and what it allows us to do is to just tell it where we want to go
how fast or how high we want to go and program it in it's just a few button clicks
and then turn it on and literally the airplane flies itself. So i i'm not actually controlling
the airplane directly. It's all running on the autopilot which I'm in charge of but it's so easy.
The cool thing about these airplanes is they're just like modern
cars we've got luxury interiors and really nice appointments you just turn on the airplane
it's like starting a car because it runs off of all the same kind of computerization
and these airplanes are really quiet and the start process is just literally just pushing a button.
That's amazing. That is amazing! What's interesting about modern airplanes
is that they're built this century designed this century and so many of our aircraft that
are available and people know about are designed in the 50s like the 172 and the 182. And there's
nothing wrong with what was designed and built in that era but what's so apparent that people don't
know until they discover it is that a completely different
design concept existed in those days. Like you do realize that they didn't even have seat belts
in cars standard until 1959. So all the original airplanes that many people enjoy still today
were designed in an era when safety design was not really part of the thought process. But in modern
aircraft design that is opposite. Everything about it is all about how can we eliminate
any risk related to flight, make it a personal safe activity,
and boy have they succeeded it is just remarkable what's been accomplished.
Here's the next secret... the smaller planes of the modern variety like we're in today,
they're doing 200 plus MPH many times, and though that's not as fast as a jet or an airliner,
in a 500 mile ring circle around wherever you might want to go, you probably can beat every
airliner to the destination because they usually have to go through a hub and spoke system.
They got to go one airport to another make a change go back to another and then you're not
even as close to where you wanted to go. You can usually beat the airliners there and you can do it
in comfort. Again, I'm six foot three and a half I'm a big guy and I've got more room than I need
here, I've got way more than if i was on an airliner. I got leg room, I got headroom,
I got elbow room, and I'm with my best friend. After we tell it where we're gonna go, it gives us
the visual display of what's coming in front of us at all time: that's called synthetic vision. This
type of technology, combined with the efficiency of these jet fuel burning piston engines,
make travel not only easy and fun, but super efficient. What's really amazing is we're
traveling around in a large SUV sized cabin so to speak, and we're burning about the same as an
SUV would burn on the highway in terms of fuel burn for miles per hour. Now that is absolutely
amazing efficiency considering we're doing over 200 MPH so efficiency and practical economic
access to being able to move around like this is real in these modern technology marvels.
Alright so we've showed you some cool stuff. Showed you some cool airplanes, technology, some
speed, and ability to go where you want to go when you want to go. But the real big question and the
secret to find out is is this stuff economically accessible is it practical? Well it depends
if you've got any travel budget in your business or you're an independent
businessman and you need to move around you should absolutely investigate
what private aviation can offer because it might astound you what the tax rules are
and the way that people access those and make it super economical. Next if you're maybe interested
in traveling around by private aviation but you have limited use, there are sharing mechanisms.
Of course there's charter where you can just go on a trip by trip basis, but in the private
world there are programs where you can be part of a group where you access an aircraft
on a use basis, and you can have other people fly you around you can learn to fly it.
There's many different options. Our company created one called Diamondshare
and that's a popular program that makes the economics of access completely different than
they would be otherwise. Just because you own the plane doesn't mean you have to pay for all of it.
So there are ways to set up business structures where other people contribute
to the ownership or even pay for the airplane or sometimes even make money owning the aircraft.
Our program at lifestyle aviation all of our counselors are set up to help people discover the
ways in which they can be involved in airplanes we help people learn we help people access.
And we have a whole network of partners across the country
that help us implement everything from training solutions to managed aircraft
to anything it takes to help our customers achieve a new aviation lifestyle. I hope you won't
hesitate to reach out to us at Lifestyle Aviation our counselors are trained to help people explore
all the possibilities. And we'll direct you to things that might help you regardless of whether
it's something we're involved directly. I hope i peaked your interest with some of the secrets
in ways we use private aviation these days. It's a lot of fun, you should come check it out!
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