ORIGINAL: vintageflyer
ORIGINAL: Nathan King
ORIGINAL: crankpin
This thread has some air. Two full tanks, and nitrous at that. I have enjoyed every comment made by the flyers here. I like SPA and BPA. Interesting. If you combined all SPA and BPA contest's in one year, how many will there be ? Just in the southeast.
I will fly SPA and when I get ready, fly BPA also. Being quailified for BPA is where I would like to be. I like the retracts, snarling .61's and pipes. I will get my engines massaged when the time comes.
Going to contest's from where I live, and if it is out of state, it takes me 5 hours just to get out of south FL. I am not complaining, but calculate the $$ for a two day weekend, 600 miles from here.
1200 miles round trip @ 20 mpg, (maybe). 60 gallons of gas, and it will be $3.50+ soon for 89 = $210.00, conservative figure.
Hotel, food, etc., one night: 125.00
Contest Admission : 40.00 ? ?
Cost to go to contest one weekend .................................................. ...............................$375.00 +
I have spent much more on other hobbies.
Vince
HA! You think you're putting down too much for the trip. I live in Omaha, Nebraska! I'm looking at 1000 miles to get to the BPA event (15 hrs one way).
2000 miles round trip @ 22 mpg. 91 gallons x $3.50 = $318.50 Beat that! Oh crap! I didn't want to know that! [:@]
Ignorance is bliss in this case!
Sorry Nathan, I gotcha There. From Hawaii to any contest will be about $1000 round trip airfare, renting a car, then start with the gas and hotel. I still would consider it, as I never had a chance to witness a REAL organized event like the ones you guys hold. I would cost allot of $, but then, I've loved this hobby since I was 8 and I LOVE old pattern, always have and always will, even if I can only afford to attend ONE contest, the memory (and smiles) will last me 'til I'm old and grey. So I'm watching this thread very closely. I really wish I could have gone to Vegas when Curcus Curcus Hobbies and Curcus Curcus Hotel held the TOC. If I met Mr. Prettner then, I still would be grinin'
DM
WOW, now THAT'S Dedication! One thousand dollars could buy a NICE airplane!
Thanks, now I can justify the trip by saying, "See, I'm not spending THAT much. There's some crazy idiot in Hawaii that is spending well over one grand.".
