Sure, its a 2000 Cirrus SR-20 which seats 4 reasonably comfortably. Holds around 60 gallons of gas, burns around 8 gallons per hour giving you a solid 6 hours and 800 miles range with no wind + reserve. From the Bay Area I can normally make Los Angeles on 14 gallons of gas in under 2 hours. San Diego would take another 30-45 minutes. By car, thats at least 8 hours to Los Angeles, 13 to San Diego if you don't hit traffic. It makes sense for certain geographies with economy of time and the flexibility to land where it isn't congested. In our case, Montgomery field in San Diego was 2 miles from the hospital where the young Marine is being treated. I took the grandmother, grandfather and the father down on the 15th of March late in the evening when a call was put out short notice.
There's always going to be a need for this type of travel - and traveling on short notice with an airline is mostly cost prohibitive and beyond the means of our service members and their loved ones. So, if you have access to an aircraft, have lost interest in the $100 hamburger and hanging out with a bunch of rich hanger rats talking about doing something good and want to travel where there is a genuine need?
Goto
http://www.veteransairlift.org You donate your time and aircraft - and that time is at the end of the year tax deductible depending on how much you charge per hour for operation. Besides, its not like you can take money with you when your dead, and gas will only be going up from here on out.
Wolf
