High altitude offers unique challenges to pilots as the air is thinner and requires faster takeoff and landing speeds. Surrounding mountains pose additional challenges, which is why, for example, Aspen Airport (ASE) has instituted a curfew between dusk and dawn to increase safety margins. Weight Weight is one of the more controllable performance variables and is typically adjusted to compensate for weather and altitude. If your group were the only ones on the airplane then the per-seat hourly rate would be: $2,500 / 3 = $833 per seat. 2)Divide the entire price by the average number of passengers the operator Minnesota certified pilots carries on each trip. Let's say the operator has been flying the SMO to LAS route for some time and they have determined that they can routinely get an average of 2.9 passengers for each flight they make. If the operator uses this pricing strategy they would charge you $2,500 / 2.9 = $862 per seat per hour. It also means a substantially lower cost for the passenger over current 'upscale' air charter or fractional jet ownership. According to Eclipse, their company is 'applying revolutionary propulsion, manufacturing, and electronics systems to produce aircraft that cost less than a third of today's small jet aircraft, [and] will be significantly safer and easier to operate than those of today.' Certification is still pending for these aircraft, but is expected in the near future. Oh, one more thing there will not be a pilot in your air taxi, as it will run like an unmanned aerial vehicle or UAV. That's correct, just like the Predator Drones used by the United States Air Force in Iraq.

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