Around 330 hours, 245 of them in Alaska in the SQ2, woohoo! Sure know how lucky I am!

105 for me. 50 of that is in the Pacer and we only bought it in September. I'm hoping to do more family trips in 2017. Here's to a new year and safe flying for all.

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Just hit the 100 hour mark and looking forward to 2017. Happy new year my friends ... may all your ups and downs be in the air (or between the sheets )
Fly safe!

152 for the year. Lower than my annual average over the 8 years I have flown the airplane, but about normal for having it back in Washington where we have lots of other fun things to do. Most of my flying was local mountain sorties, playing on the rivers etc, with less than 1.0 logged.

My two longer trips were to High Sierra Fly In and to Oshkosh. These accounted for about 50 of these hours.

Jughead

Hammer wrote:Am I the only one who doesn't add up their hours? A few years ago when I quit trying to fly for hire and my insurance rates were as low as they were going to get, I just quit totaling the time. A couple times a year I bring the gps home and record the data, but that's pretty much it. I'd guess somewhere between 100~150 hours last year, but I really don't know.

So far, both times I stopped logging time I was furloughed within six months. Now, I see it as my duty to keep logging time so that everyone junior to me remains employed.

On whether to log, I went through a period some 25-30 years ago when it didn't seem necessary, so I just logged the ones necessary to show day, night, and IFR currency. I really regret that now, because there were some interesting flights during that period which would be clearer in my memory if I had something to look at. So for the last 25 years or so, I've logged pretty religiously.

Unfortunately, this year has been a bit of a bust, just 45 hours, due to being grounded when my airplane sat waiting for the new exhaust system (which incidentally is really gorgeous, in a SS tubing sort of way) and being medically grounded again by the FAA due to my blood work being off kilter for awhile. I've tried to make up a little for it by getting up more often since getting my medical back, but the windy weather has taken a lot of the fun out of just going up. The last couple of flights were really nice, though, just ol' Molly dog and me and the solitude of the sky.

Cary

Like Hammer I don't really keep track, maybe 70 GA. My measure is more the landings and takeoffs from not-an-airport.

I was only able to fly about 65 hours early this year, I've been up north most of the year turning wrenches and my plane is in the lower 48. I'm looking forward to this summer in AK, I'll be sure to fly as much as possible. I am glad I was able to make it to HSF this last year

Ben

82 this year. Couple fun family trips and some interesting flights. I still go back through the log remarks from years ago and reminisce about some of the adventures. Mainly I log so the one year I fly #00 hours I can drop it in this thread and sit back with a cigar triumphantly. Fingers crossed.


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I only logged a little over 25 hours but that was starting lessons in October. Next year should be over 200 since I just bought a plane and I'm planning to work towards an instructor cert.

Well around 50 because the plane was down for several months. But at work I flew like 750!


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I finally got curious enough to look in my log book. I knew it wasn't much and found a total of 1.2...that's 1 point 2...hours this year. The sad part is I spent over a week full time doing the condition inspection this year, and don't even want to think about the insurance payment.

My excuse is liking to do too many other things besides flying. The older I get the more I want to get into the backcountry on foot.

Spent a good chunk of the year buying an airplane, so my hours are lower than I would like.

That said, with my new bird, 2017 is gonna be a good year.

Gonna make that Garmin 696 work!

I added another 5+ hours bouncing around southern Utah today. I'll post my pics in my GSP thread. Great day of flying!


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tcj wrote:...
My excuse is liking to do too many other things besides flying. The older I get the more I want to get into the backcountry on foot.

Why not do both? I don't remember the last time I flew into the backcountry and stayed at the plane the whole time. I think of landing the airplane as getting to the trail head...not a destination in and of itself.

I routinely leave my airplane unattended for three to seven days, including at airstrips in sight of a road, and I've never had a problem. And if I ever do have a problem, well, I think it's worth it for the access it provides.

Flying is neat, and flying in the mountains is better yet, but I believe the real value of an airplane is how elegantly it puts you in a good place to strap on the boots and backpack.

Unless this fog layer lifts in the next few hours, I'm done for the year. I've been averaging over 200 the last few years, but I got robbed this year, only 196 TT.

The folding e mountain bike has changed how I look at going places, and why. 5 times this year I landed new off airport sites that were part of a bike ride, after discovering a trail I wanted to ride, I then had to find a place to land. Twice, while on these rides, I discovered higher up LZ's, that I landed after getting back to the plane and packing the bike up. The first few times I flew my bike ride route, I expected it to go by in a flash. In a straight line, at 85 mph or so, why wouldn't it. To my surprise, and this has happened several times now, I am always astounded how far I rode, and how long it takes to fly it. What almost always happens, is when I re fly the bike route, and then turn to head for home, on the way I spot a few more future ride sites. So, I scratch one off the list and add two more. I need to get busy this next year, I'm falling behind.

Hammer wrote:

tcj wrote:...
My excuse is liking to do too many other things besides flying. The older I get the more I want to get into the backcountry on foot.

Why not do both? I don't remember the last time I flew into the backcountry and stayed at the plane the whole time. I think of landing the airplane as getting to the trail head...not a destination in and of itself.

I routinely leave my airplane unattended for three to seven days, including at airstrips in sight of a road, and I've never had a problem. And if I ever do have a problem, well, I think it's worth it for the access it provides.

Flying is neat, and flying in the mountains is better yet, but I believe the real value of an airplane is how elegantly it puts you in a good place to strap on the boots and backpack.

Now that's a plan I can get behind. I'd gotten into flying with a plan to use the plane for family trips and wilderness trips/hunting and I've been a bit concerned about that idea with all the hand-wringing (not necessarily on this site) that goes on regarding leaving a plane unattended.

I only got 52 hours this year and I'm still at the stage where I've got to log them for getting my insurance rates down. It was a tough year around here both with weather and work.

After taking a 3+ year hiatus due to life's little moments, I put a massive 20.7 in the book this year. I feel like I made them count though. In that 20-ish hours I got checked out in a new plane, have 3 tailwheel lessons completed, three first flights with my kids (5 and 7) at the controls, flight testing a new aviation safety product I'm working on (successfully!), and a few cross country trips including Colorado high country, as well as my first experience taking an airplane over open ocean when we rented a 172 in Maui and flew to Big Island and back.

I only have some idea of what 2017 will bring. I know the first tailwheel flight (lesson #4) is next week though, and I'm hoping to get to KOSH under my own winged power. I also have a couple trips to WY and MT planned, plus whatever other random stuff gets thrown in. I'm contemplating a run to the west coast and back. And have my calendar marked off for the next six months for local Young Eagles rallies, because kids and airplanes are one of the best combinations ever - it certainly defined my childhood. Bring on next year, and hopefully triple digits in the book!

65 hours since the DAR sign-off on 30 July. Hoping to get the skis mounted this week.


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Put the last entry in yesterday, 180 hours for the year. That included my sons first flight at 4 months old, an 18 hr round trip my Dad and I have wanted to do for years, and lots of time to check off boxes while finishing up my commercial ticket.