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I wonder how much a chopper ride would cost at "reasonable rates" (e.g, not the air ambulance but just a chopper).
by bombcar 7mo ago
I wonder how much a chopper ride would cost at "reasonable rates" (e.g, not the air ambulance but just a chopper).
- doikor 7mo agoPer person around $1500. Over 10k of you can’t fill the chopper.
- paxys 7mo agoI'm assuming less than the average ambulance ride in the USA
- throwway120385 7mo agoFrom personal experience it's about twice the cost of an ambulance ride from my house to the hospital. Air ambulances here are about 10 times as much.
- bombcar 7mo agoHaving something scheduled is cheaper than on-demand, too. You may even end up using the same equipment, but at a lower priority (it costs $200 or so to have an ambulance sit at your event, for example).
- hermitcrab 7mo agoYes, but it might be in some ancient Russian helicopter of unknown provenance.
- MikeNotThePope 7mo agoI can tell you exactly what it cost for me. I took the helicopter from Gorakshep, the highest/last town on the EBC trek, to Lukla, the crazy airport people call the most dangerous one in the world. For me, a 255 lbs / 115kg guy, 2 Nepalis that are each half my size, a pilot, and our not-that-heavy hiking gear was 2000 USD in October of 2024. Pics/video: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBTpLGtydZW/ https://www.instagram.com/p/DBTpLGtydZW/
- AndrewKemendo 7mo agoNothing beats good quality, freshly sourced, all natural ground truth data
- ddlatham 7mo agoprobably mean 255 lb / 115kg
- MikeNotThePope 7mo agoYes, thanks for noticing. I fixed.