Re: "Miljövän rasar mot flygshow"

http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=113&a=442174

I need to comment on this news story as it really annoyed me.

I've personally grown up with airplanes and airshows very close to me as my father was a pilot, I have quite a few old friends that are pilots, and I've always been interested in airplanes and I admit that this might have coloured my perspective very heavily. However, the hypocrisy and bullshit, if you excuse my language, that Lotta Holmberg spews forth is just plain wrong.

Before she even considers throwing stones in her own glass house, she should contemplate how she herself is living. She's even so mentally deficit as to admit that she hasn't even stopped her "yearly trip to the sun". Now, let's do some really simple math on this.

Let's consider how many people get anything from a trip with a charter airplane "to the sun", approximately 200-500, let's say 400 to err on her side. Average trip time from this country to "a place in the sun" would be approximately 5-6 hours airtime, so a grand total of 12 hours both ways. Split the airtime per passenger, 12/400 which turns into 1.8 minutes per person on the airplane.

Now, let's consider the airshow. There was a grand total of maximum 6 hours or so of airshows per day, average of 3-4 airplanes in the air at all times (rounding to 4 to be nice to you), so a grand total of 6*2*4 = 48 hours in the air during the whole airshow. 45000 persons visited the airshow and had a great time, making for a total of 48/45000 hours per person and which turns into... tada, a massive 3,84 seconds airtime per visitor.

To make it simple, let's make the assumption "all airplanes turns out as much green gases as any other" (your charter aircraft is gigantic in comparison and shiny new with perfect green engines (yeah as if, you freakin mooch going with the cheapest 30 year old crap airplanes on the market and still flying commercially), while "mine" at the airshow are very small, but at the same time very old so probably having a bad efficiency with a big exhaust of gases in comparison to their engine size). So, 1.8 minutes = 108 seconds, divided by 3.84 seconds, 28.125x less gas output per person in comparison to your "yearly trip to the sun".

I got about 50 other reasons why airshows are a good thing and needs to be there, and why you should keep your mouth shut. Please stop throwing stones in a glass house and stop putting your feets in your own mouth.

Now, if you excuse me, I need to visit 420 airshows to use up as much green gases as you have done with your "yearly trips to the sun" -- calculated based on you being old enough to have been on 15 "yearly trips to the sun" vs Göteborg Aero show.