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Hackers Leak 2.5M Private Plane Owners’ Data Linked to LA Intl. Airport Breach (www.hackread.com)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

"Private planes" may refer to a Piper Cub. It's expensive, but in some areas may make sense, and fits under a hobby. Some people dream of piloting.

"Yachts" may refer to a motorboat. Or a yacht as in "motorboat with one sail". It's expensive, but very often honestly worked for. Some people dream of yachting.

I'm just informing you of cases you clearly didn't think about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Getting a private pilots license is a lot cheaper than I thought once I started researching it. The total cost of everything (school/instructor time/flight hours) seemed to average around 15k. Instead of buying a new car for 40k you could probably reasonably afford a pilots license and a plane share with a couple other people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yes, and people do that. Which was my point.

There are still health requirements for a license and these are not a pure formality, I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

You're overthinking it. People who have it better than me are automatically bad, and all crimes are authorized against them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was just looking at planes this week, can get an experimental one seater for like $30k.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I need the link.

(But - yes. I was still thinking of "real" planes, but I suppose there may be something flying for that cost. If you don't mean a glider.)