The $100 Hamburger Podcast

Sometimes things break. Decisions have to made thoughtfully, carefully and quickly. This was such an event. It happened to me.

What makes a shinny new thing valuable? What if the shiny new things is just shiny and new but isn't valuable? Can a shiny new thing reignaite a stagant industry and bring new buyers?

What's perfection? What airplane would be perfect for your business travel? Let's take a look!

Hwo can you own the airplane you want and lower the cost of ownership to almost nothing? Seems impossible. It isn't!

This time we'll explore how you can let Uncle Sam help pay for your aircraft. I think you'll profit from one or two of its key points.

Employers want to make travel easy for employees and they want to let the employee chose how they wish to travel and when. Often laws stand in the way. Vicarious Liability is a legal theory that will try to keep you on the ground. Here we discuss two workarounds.

If you own your own business and your own airplane and you use your airplane for business its easy and profitable to writeoff the use of that airplane on your income taxes. What if you are an employee who seeks to use his airplane for business travel and to be reimbursed by his employer for doing so? Is that possible? Is it legall? What are the restrictions?

An era comes to a close and a new and better one is just beginning. Here's the thing. You need to buy a used single engine aircraft now. Don't wait. 

Airports like the cafes on their tarmac, come and go. The question comes, is it a graceful exit or a traumatic one? Do people cry or clap when it happens? Some of both I suppose. Let's have a look.

A fresh Medical in your pocket doesn't mean you're safe to fly in the air. What does? How do you know when you're Good to Go and when you're not? Let's get into it.

New airplane parts are expensive. The only thing more expensive than buying a new part can be repairing an old one. That could cost you your life. Lets explore the options.

Keep your same plane and lower your over all cost of flying? How? Simple! Listen closely. You'll be glad you did.

Airplanes are different and they require different techniques to fly them safely and well. The FAA has definite procedures that you MUST follow to be able to fly certain aircraft. Once accomplished they issue a Type Rating to you which allows you to pilot that machine. What else do you need to know about the processo f moving from one machine to the next that nobody thought to tell you?

Staying current is staying safe. How do you achieve it? IS it hours flown? Skills practiced? Lessons learned? What keeps you current? Let's explore ..........

Hwo much fuel is still in the tank. How much longer can you stay aloft? Are you sure? You can be! Here's how.

What's the first upgrade box to add to your airplane. The one that makes piloting easy and gives you and extra set of hands of course. An autopilot.

Preflighting your ship before every flight is important. Missing something may well make this the last flight you and your airplane will ever make.

Summer is a time to use your plane to fly to new places and see new things. Museums are some of my favorite destinations. Here are there of my favorites. I think you'll like them too.

What do we fly? Why aren't  new ships on the way to replace our aging fleet? What's the GOOD news?

Pro Pilots fly with precision. How do you know if you're doing that and if your not what should you do about it? We all what to be Pro Pilots. Here's how.....

A little bit of planning goes a long way towards experiencing -  The Perfect Burger Run. Jumping into your ship and grabbing some sky without benefit of forethought just won't cut it.The $100 Hamburger website has the perfect tool to help you know where you want to go TODAY!

Airplanes are a combination of many systems each interacting with all the others. A workaround is the solution a pilot applies when a component of one of those system fails and the airplane no longer functions as intended with the pilots 'fix'. Workarounds are things humans can do that machines just can't.

We're not laking about the winged creatures that bite you. We're remembering the fate of the famous VW beetle often called simply the BUG and think about the solid future in fromt of GA.

Summer is travelin' time. It's also turbulence time and thunderstorm time. Let's talk about how to blend it all together to create great memories and huge smiles for pilot and passengers.

Fly more, spend less and save your engine. Here's how.

Summers a great time to fly. There are many places to go and vacation time to burn. Here's the thing, visibility often sucks! Let's talk about an easy cure for every pilot. It's called the Instrument ticket. 

New airplanes have reached an unaffordable level. Why is that? What can we do about it? How can we profit from this market distortion?

It's Oshkosh time again. Are you going? What do you hope to see? What will be new? Not what you expect but certainly what you need and what you'll want. Take along your checkbook. There will be great show specials!

There's much more to making a Burger Run thn meets the eye. There is a reason behind and a true purpose that you need to know about and pass along to other pilots. Its about so much more than lunch.

Great ideas sometime go bad amd great airplanes wind up on history trash bin. Typically it has more to do with finance and marketing issues. That's the case we'll be discussing today and the fate of an airplane I really wanted to buy.

Flight planning is key to getting the most out of your machine. GPS Direct beats flying the airways every time. The question is how do you get to fly VFR direct on an IFR day?

Innovators like Walter and Olive Ann Beech gave us some GREAT airplanes. What are the companies that produce them today doing to move personal aviation forward?

A small number of legacy aricraft have been sanctioned by the FAA to fly under LSA rules. That's a good thing as it allows you to fly using only your driver's license as your medical. The Ercoupe is the pick of the legacy litter as it has tricycle gear and is the easiest for most of us to fly. Learning to do the rudder dnace is required to get all the other off the ground and bring them back to earth. The Ercoupe is worth a look and in my mind a purchase if you can find a good one.

I's hard to find solutions when we misunderstand the problem. So it goes for the long held and widely believed MYTH that Product Liability issues killed GA. Today we'll explore the views of a famous and well respected aviation pioneer who begs to differ.

Ronnie Blaker was my first flight instructor. There would be several others over the years but it was Ronnie that introduced me to piloting and taught me that it was a dance not a wrestling match and dancing is about communicating through touch. The gentlemen presents the lady and the lady presents the dance. 

A day will come when each of us will pilot a plane for the last time. Will it be a happy day or a sad one? Perhaps it will be a mixture of both. It happened first for the Wright brothers, both of them. This is the story of their Last Flights. Enjoy!

It's all about what a thing does and its name tells the story. Hear this machines name and you instantly know all about it.

There are very, very few new aircraft being manufactured these days. In every industry no matter how big or how small there is a market leader. In aviation the undisputed market leader is Cirrus. Why is that? Well that's what today's episode explores. I think you'll be very interested in the reasons for their success that I've uncovered. By the way, your encouraged to drop me an email to share anything that's on your mind about anything dealing with aviation. Here's my address:jpurner@100dollarhamburger.comI hope to hear from you soon.

While your competitors are standing inline with their shoes off and their belts in the basket your having coffee with your customer. It's all about flying yourself for business.

Herb Kellner, the founder and first CEO of Southwest Airlines, was very clear that a personal car was his chief competitor when it came to trips of 120 miles or less. Why? Convenience! Herb felt he ruled all trips of over 200 miles for the same reason. Here's the thing, a personal aircraft has Southwest beat by a long shot. Have and listen and see why.

Flying commercial is always going to be cheaper but is it ever better and in the long run is it really cheaper. In this episode we;ll explore the reasons it makes sense to fly yourself - economic sense!

Why do I fly? Simple. I fly for the fun of it. Richard Bach, the author of Jonathon Livingston Seagull has written about this subject often. His thoughts and his experience are well worth knowing. What's he been up to recently?  Give a listen and find out.

The $100 Hamburger book and website are about flying to airport restaurants and enjoying a meal once there. Every meal becomes a fun adventure. Sadly some airport restaurants fail and others succeed. This episode provides a recipe for success which I hope each listener will share with their favorite airport restaurant operator.