STATIC ON THE AIRWAVES.(CAPITAL REGION)

You may not qualify for a ride in the official state plane, but you can have Gov. George Pataki in your car on the Thruway.

The highway's traffic advisory station -- 1610 AM -- has lately become Radio Free Pataki with a plug for the state and its governor.

``Governor Pataki's policies are working,'' begins the resonant voice of Jack Kinnicutt, Empire State Development's assistant deputy commissioner for public affairs. The ad boasts of the state's 1999 job growth; Pataki credits his ``business-friendly policies'' and declares, ``New York is meeting the challenges of the new economy with less taxes, less regulations, less red tape, and more faith in the …