New Service Lets You Hitch a Ride With Private Planes For Cost of Tank of Gas

v3rgEz (125380) writes "A new service, Airpooler, matches pilots with passengers looking to head the same way. Since it's not an officially licensed charter service, prices are limited to roughly the passengers' share of the gas, giving pilots a way to share the expense of enjoying the open blue and flyers a taste of their personal pilot."

Re:Just don't fly..

[JustOK]

That's better than into the ocean

um...

[edibobb]

I don't think I want to get into an unknown plane flown by an unknown pilot who needs to share the fuel bill.

Re:Potential FAA issues

[Richy_T]

Sorry, cloudy skies :D

Tried to start this in 1987

[Anonymous Coward]

We tried to do something similar in 1987 -- reservation system for the charter airline industry to fill the "dead" legs (return flights). Prototyped on Tandy 6000 (8MHz 68K, 1M RAM) and PCs with IBM EGA cards (yes, EGA, not VGA).

Never did get it off the ground....

Re:Potential FAA issues

[plover]

Well, it's still murky waters if random-pilot-of-the-day does it wrong...

Re:Having a private pilots license

[jratcliffe]

Granted, it's probably not going to be the most gentile landing

So I should look to land on a nice cushy Rabbi?