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>SpaceX has also increased the price of its Starlink Aviation equipment to $200,000 per business aircraft, up from $145,000 last year. ouch.
by khurs 3mo ago
>SpaceX has also increased the price of its Starlink Aviation equipment to $200,000 per business aircraft, up from $145,000 last year.
ouch.
- 1234letshaveatw 3mo agoWon't someone think of the aviators!!
- TimTheTinker 3mo agoBrand-new Cessna planes were selling for roughly 2x the US median annual income in the 1960s. Today that number is at around 5.5x. I've always wanted to fly my wife & kids in a plane, but I just can't afford a high-maintenance luxury asset that costs as much as a house, and fuel costs are prohibitive as well. so yeah, if someone could mass-manufacture an FAA MOSAIC-certified light-sport aircraft with >2 seats, that could bring the cost of fractional ownership and once-every-two-months weekend use down to my level. And if small local air strips could stop closing too, that'd be great. --- All to say, aviation used to be semi-reachable as a middle class hobby for family people. Now, the only way to get a family in the air for people like me is to spend years building a kit plane from scratch or fixing up a cheap broken plane.
- 1234letshaveatw 3mo agour wife and kid will want in flight wifi
- TimTheTinker 3mo agoOur family is used to not having it on flights. Just bring a book or download a movie ahead of time to the iPad
- bakies 3mo agoI wonder how this compares with non-starlink aircraft ISP? Was/Is Delta using something else? Their internet has been good for a while.
- inemesitaffia 3mo agoMost of the cost is in installation