Fly Overs ... Great Video

[Spark]

http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d80924c91

[NEJAKE]

That is cool....but the question is what's the cost of a fly over and who foots the bill, the NFL or US tax payer?

With the price of fuel these days they should just pipe in the sound of a fly over!

[vols fan]

That is cool....but the question is what's the cost of a fly over and who foots the bill, the NFL or US tax payer?

With the price of fuel these days they should just pipe in the sound of a fly over!

It still falls on the taxpayers but it comes out of the local bases in the area.Even though it's ceremonial they use it as a training mission and therefore the Nfl,Nascar and anyone else that has a flyover is not paying.

[kbsooner21]

Nothing gives me goosebumps like seeing a fly over live! Awesome

[NEJAKE]

Nothing gives me goosebumps like seeing a fly over live! Awesome

It is awesome, but I do wonder what the dollar figure is for one.

[jcindaville]

That is cool....but the question is what's the cost of a fly over and who foots the bill, the NFL or US tax payer?

With the price of fuel these days they should just pipe in the sound of a fly over!

Tax payers foot the bill, the air force justifies it calling it advertising.

I have a Nephew in the Air force, he did a fly over at the Louisville Miami Fl game 2 years ago, it was awesome

[BillMill71]

Tax payers foot the bill, the air force justifies it calling it advertising.

I have a Nephew in the Air force, he did a fly over at the Louisville Miami Fl game 2 years ago, it was awesome

Louisville has a football team?

[umreb78]

FWIW...The DoD estimates that the average cost of pilot / ground crew training missions is around $2,800 per filight hour (varies obviously depending upon type of aircraft). Having been on Air Force bases all my life, I can say that every flyover, though primarily viewed by the public as PR, does constitute required pilot training and essentially, if these crews weren't doing the flyovers they would be doing a different training mission albeit not necesarily on the same day or in the same place. So, at the end of the day, there is no "additional" DoD cost for those missions. BTW, virtually every flyover and most of the training flights we see over the States are done by Reservists and ANG units. Interestingly, there are some aspects of a typical flyover that can't really be practiced in any other alternative training mission.

[ogarza]

FWIW...The DoD estimates that the average cost of pilot / ground crew training missions is around $2,800 per filight hour (varies obviously depending upon type of aircraft). Having been on Air Force bases all my life, I can say that every flyover, though primarily viewed by the public as PR, does constitute required pilot training and essentially, if these crews weren't doing the flyovers they would be doing a different training mission albeit not necesarily on the same day or in the same place. So, at the end of the day, there is no "additional" DoD cost for those missions. BTW, virtually every flyover and most of the training flights we see over the States are done by Reservists and ANG units. Interestingly, there are some aspects of a typical flyover that can't really be practiced in any other alternative training mission.

Yea what he said