What's your flight profile?

[cliffy]

What is everyone's flight profile breakdown?   Percentage of flights over 100 miles away from home compared to boring holes in the sky for fun around the home drome

I'm 98% long distance traveling. 2 to 7 hrs away for most all trips. 

[Andy95W]

I’m 98% farting around less than 50 NM from home. 

[RLCarter]

Currently working on commercial so 60% training, 20% converting 100 LL into airplane noises, 20% flying around 'cause it's just too nice of a day not too 

[PMcClure]

Almost all XC - but grounded for now! 

[J0nathan225]

1-5 hour flights, one way, is my normal.  

I'm out of no-where Enterprise, AL so I like to "get out", mostly I fly to:  Newnan, Ga, Richmond, Va, Savannah, Ga, St Simons, Ga (BBQ!), Foothills (I'm an @AGL Aviation only maintenance snob haha).

[Yetti]

Mostly for fun.   But it was kind of cool to:  Friday my brother sends me an email with you should go look at this boat.   Called the guy.  Hopped in the plane turned a 3 hour drive into a less than 1 hour flight.

[Oldguy]

Normally 75% XC and 25% local, but since I have been pumping AMUs into the panel and interior, it has been local for the past 9 months.

[Mooneymite]

Mostly all x-country, unless I just need to "heat up the oil".

The Mooney flies too much like the plane I fly for work and does not qualify as "just fun".  I think every Mooney pilot should have (access to) an open cockpit, tail dragin', fun-to-fly-go-nowhere second plane. 

[rbridges]

46 minutes ago, Mooneymite said:

Mostly all x-country, unless I just need to "heat up the oil".

The Mooney flies too much like the plane I fly for work and does not qualify as "just fun".  I think every Mooney pilot should have (access to) an open cockpit, tail dragin', fun-to-fly-go-nowhere second plane. 

As long as it's not a Hatz. I heard only weirdos fly those. 

[larryb]

99% 150+ nm.

[gsxrpilot]

90% 200+ nm. 

The other 10% is practice for the CPL, IFR approaches, and Formation flying.

[R Van Dyck]

95% 500+ nm. 

The other 5% is bi.-annual rides.

[Ibra]

1 hour ago, Mooneymite said:

Mostly all x-country, unless I just need to "heat up the oil".

The Mooney flies too much like the plane I fly for work and does not qualify as "just fun".  I think every Mooney pilot should have (access to) an open cockpit, tail dragin', fun-to-fly-go-nowhere second plane. 

Same profile, Mooney: 2 big +1000nm week trips/year, 10 weekend 200nm commutes/year, and barely 4h/year local fun, but when I do fun flying everybody in pattern & nearby strips has to know about it the rest of flying is fun-to-fly-go-nowhere or instruction in vintage, tail dragin, gliders...

 

[skydvrboy]

Based on 3 of flights, I seem to be roughly 60% XC, 30% giving rides to friends, family, and strangers, and 10% training.  About 80% of my flights have at least 1 passenger, 50% at least 2, and 25% have all 4 seats full.

Now if you look at it on a per hour basis, it's closer to 85% XC, 5% rides, and 10% training.

[Hank]

My own flight profile is a short ground run, then a steep climb, followed by a long, flat portion, then a high speed descent, another flat portion, then descent to ground level. 

[RLCarter]

6 hours ago, Hank said:

My own flight profile is a short ground run, then a steep climb, followed by a long, flat portion, then a high speed descent, another flat portion, then descent to ground level. 

That is indeed a flight profile

Edited March 7, 2020 by RLCarter

[EricJ]

Usually a few hours at a time doing scenery recon around Arizona and practicing instrument approaches at remote airports.    

[David Lloyd]

Mine is somewhat the same, but at the end, substitute: descent to near ground level and slamming repeatedly to the ground.

Seriously, now it is more short hamburger runs.  For the last 10 years before retirement, my average flight was 2.5 hours.  A couple times a week.

[Danb]

Long cross countries 90%, remainder practice or flying to MSC for maintenance I don’t do myself, 30+ years ago the profile was reversed.

[ohdub]

I would guess that ~ 30-40% of my hours each year are x-country trips >500nm. The rest are short, local flights: keeping my ifr current, meeting friends for lunch, taking people for rides etc. I wish more of my flights were x-country, but I end up needing to do the short flights to keep the airplane from sitting unused for too long at a time.

[carusoam]

What it used to be...

50% 200nm...

50% 100nm...

 

Will get back there again... someday...

Best regards,

-a-

[N201MKTurbo]

Almost no farting around the local area.

50% of my hours are flying between Phoenix and Tucson (boring!)

[MB65E]

But Picacho peak is so cool! :-)

-Matt 

[N201MKTurbo]

55 minutes ago, MB65E said:

But Picacho peak is so cool! :-)

-Matt 

That thing is a vortex generator. Don’t fly down wind of it if the wind is blowing....

[bradp]

Not much local flying unless for IFR currency flights.  Almost all 200 nm flights