2013 Total Time

[Seth]

It's the end of 2013 - How many logged hours did you fly?  Were any of them not in your Mooney?

 

Despite flying around the country, I was down again hours wise at 134 for the year.

 

Happy Flying!

 

-Seth

[Mooneymite]

Total flight time for the year?

Non-commercial (part 91) flight time?

Just Mooney flight time?

Just time in my own Mooney?

[TWinter]

About 52 hrs this year.. Not near enough. Had lots of upgrades done to the Mooney and our airport's favored runway was closed to resurface. Leaving us a crappy secondary runway with no lights for about two months. It is still closed..we are now in month three and still not done. Hope for a better 2014.

[Jeff_S]

Sad to say, 2013 is my lowest year on record since I got my license. Lots of crappy weather in Atlanta, one big trip that got canceled because of a bad alternator and another because of weather, and fewer available Angel Flights and pet rescues than in years past all contributed. One resolution for 2014 is to do something about this...I'm thinking about going for my Commercial just for fun. I would like to learn and practice the commercial maneuvers, although in reality, I could care less about taking the written and actually getting my certificate. We shall see.

[Danb]

Time seems to be dwindling for many reasons economic medical etc. I'm at Kilg west side. It's like a morgue there, back in the 80's. 90's etc. we had lots of guys hanger flying, rapping. Etc..I rec. ss now so I'm no spring chicken. Around our area they call me kid? We need young new pilots to take over, the airport put a fence up between Ga and rest of field if I fell over no one would know. I bought my hanger about 15+ yrs ago for say 50gs. Probably could not give it away, somehow we need to get young kids to get the flying bug to take over from us,as we did, somehow I wish I knew our sport, life etc needs to replenish. Our barren fields need to be energized again hopefully a new year will bring hope for our field..if supply demand could get back in favor in flying May return,??

[Txbyker]

170 this year. That's the most in a year for me.

Russ

[robert7467]

73 TT

45 XC

97 TO/LANDINGS

[201er]

It's the end of 2013 - How many logged hours did you fly?  Were any of them not in your Mooney?

 

Despite flying around the country, I was down again hours wise at 134 for the year.

 

Happy Flying!

 

-Seth

The year's not over. Not too late to go add a few

 

About 275 hours for me. Still totaling up my log book from the trip.

[Bob_Belville]

Only 57. (lost the last 3 months with plane out of service.)

[BigTex]

This is a depressing thread...  Between heavy workload at my day job, maintenance issues and upgrades it looks like I'll be only around the 20 hour mark.    But hey, there's always next year.

[PMcClure]

140 hours this year and added some neat locations too including Niagra, NC Outerbanks - still can't find a slot to last at First Flight, New Orleans, Iowa, ND, SD and several short trips to the beach. About 60% business and 40% pleasure. 

[Joe Zuffoletto]

88 this year, 73 of which were in the Acclaim. The rest included 6 getting my tailwheel endorsement in a Super Decathlon, 3 getting Vans RV transition training in an RV-7, and 6 more in my RV-8 before breaking my foot in October grounded me for a couple months.

[fantom]

Never....ever.....enough!

[John Pleisse]

25 hours (needed eye surgery), 15 in the last 5 weeks post surgery, however.

[donkaye]

My airplane has been in the avionics shop for the past 4 months so my total for 2013 was quite a bit less than usual.  Total for 2013 was 293.7 hours.

[M016576]

~110 mooney. ~175 F-15. ~100 F-15 simulator hours

[M016576]

Time seems to be dwindling for many reasons economic medical etc. I'm at Kilg west side. It's like a morgue there, back in the 80's. 90's etc. we had lots of guys hanger flying, rapping. Etc..I rec. ss now so I'm no spring chicken. Around our area they call me kid? We need young new pilots to take over, the airport put a fence up between Ga and rest of field if I fell over no one would know. I bought my hanger about 15+ yrs ago for say 50gs. Probably could not give it away, somehow we need to get young kids to get the flying bug to take over from us,as we did, somehow I wish I knew our sport, life etc needs to replenish. Our barren fields need to be energized again hopefully a new year will bring hope for our field..if supply demand could get back in favor in flying May return,??

Cost to benefit is just so high now in GA. You want young kids to get involved, start flying, etc. then we as pilots have to pay / subsidize it. And when I say kids, I'm talking about ages 16-25. What college student can afford tuition at 35k a year, plus 10k of loans for private pilot lessons... And with wet rentals at 100+ bucks an hour, what's the incentive to fly on the backside of your license.

I'm all for re-invigorating GA with youth... But we've (the GA community) priced ourselves out of it. Any kid who really dreams of flying now has only 3 options: 1) massive debt load to attend a school-> airlines. 2) military flight training (both 1&2, of which you can't really afford to fly GA until your 10 years in, even without the costs for recurrent training) and 3). Be independently wealthy ( or have parents that are).

Make no mistake- very few professional pilots can afford to fly GA anymore, let alone kids that dream about flying... It's just too expensive. Unless the prices and costs come down dramatically, the pilot population in GA will continue to attrit and age up...

$15,000 dollars for a GPS unit with a tenth the computing power of a $500 dollar iPad? Give me a break. No wonder young adults don't want to fly.... We're priced out of it!

Ok, now that that rant is complete, anyone want to buy this poor young (ok, not that young) military pilot a new panel?

[Openwheeler3]

I managed 240 hrs total, about 70 in my Mooney, and the balance in AH-64s in Afghanistan.

[fantom]

.....anyone want to buy this poor young (ok, not that young) military pilot a new panel?

 

If you think about it, we already have

[rbridges]

Sad to say, 2013 is my lowest year on record since I got my license. Lots of crappy weather in Atlanta, one big trip that got canceled because of a bad alternator and another because of weather, and fewer available Angel Flights and pet rescues than in years past all contributed. One resolution for 2014 is to do something about this...I'm thinking about going for my Commercial just for fun. I would like to learn and practice the commercial maneuvers, although in reality, I could care less about taking the written and actually getting my certificate. We shall see.

 

I thought about the commercial, too.  same reason, just kicks and giggles.  I probably logged 50-60 hours this year, but I managed to get the mooney up in the air at least every 3 weeks.  

[Aviator]

95 hours this year, all In my Ovation. Annual goal is at least 120. Not sure what happened but I am now getting reenergized and motivated for 2014.

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[Mooneymite]

About 500 total, but only about 200 of that was part 91; only about 70 using avgas, the rest was all Jet A time.

[larryb]

154 hours, including training for my IR. All in my J. That includes 11 trips to Truckee, 4 trips to LA, one trip to Oregon, and local fun flying.

[Danb]

Mo..you are so correct, thought the las route would help, nope. Just hope something turns around, need to fly younger folks in a hope the bug hits, need more colleges for them to get aviation training with grants, loans etc..but totally have to sadly agree. Oh had 70 hrs last rye still grounded recovering from back surgery

[kerry]

74 hrs Total time.  27 hours in the mooney and 47 hours tailwheel(Bakeng Duce).