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Hitchhiking a plane

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With rising fuel costs, pilots may be much less likely to take passengers: in a small plane, your added weight is significant. Though it's not in the spirit of hitchhiking (or more in the spirit of Romanian hitching), if you're willing to offer to split or help with gasoline costs, your chances may be better. Keep in mind that offering to split costs on a small single-engine plane (like a Cessna 150) will run you about the cost of driving; splitting the costs for larger planes may be comparable to renting a car+gas, or even to flying on a commercial flight.
 
=== Experience ===
 
:[[User:Halt, Stop! Reudnitz kommt.|Craig]] and his brother tried to hitchhike airplanes at '''New York''''s busiest general aviation airports ''Teteboro Airport'' and ''Essex County Airport''. Over the course of seven hours in total they made many friends but didn't get any lift by plane.
 
''Teteboro Airport'' is not to be recommended. They will chase you away, because this is the hub for Paris Hilton, George Clooney and Lady Gaga. The few possible points are off your limits: business terminals. No flight schools at this airport. Few ''small pilots''.
 
If you would have success hitchhiking an aircraft you should opt for ''Sussex County Airport'' accessible by walking from ''Willowbrook Mall'' near ''Paterson''. Regularly buses run from Manhattan's ''Port Authority Bus Terminal'' near ''Penn Station''. Try hitching with ''small pilots''.
== Hitching Commercial Planes ==

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