Practice vs Purpose (Poll)

[201er]

Is most of your flying for practice or for purpose? Do you get your practice in amidst purpose flights? Or most of your flights local practice flights like patterns, maneuvers, and approaches?

Edited May 10, 2022 by 201er

[Greg Ellis]

I do take long trips but most of my weekend flying has been local, working on different things such as stalls, steep turns and other maneuvers.  And right now, most of my flying is devoted to learning the GFC500 that was just installed and using it along with the GNS530W and the Garmin GNC355.

[201er]

I'm going to be the first to say "it depends" how you classify it. By hours, most of my Mooney flying is for purpose and thus I voted as such in the poll. However, by flights or landings, probably mostly for practice. I can rack up 50 hours in 1-2 trips and make less than a dozen landings. But then in 10 hours of local flying and practice I can rack up 30 landings and get a ton of practice in. So it's hard to say and requires an explanation.

[A64Pilot]

I’m Retired, so unless you count going out to eat as a purpose, then all my flying is really just OFO, Military term Out (you know) Off.

 

[MikeOH]

3 hours ago, A64Pilot said:

I’m Retired, so unless you count going out to eat as a purpose, then all my flying is really just OFO, Military term Out (you know) Off.

 

Yeah, that would have been my choice if it was on the poll

[gmonnig]

7 hours ago, 201er said:

Is most of your flying for practice or for purpose? Do you get your practice in amidst purpose flights? Or most of your flights local practice flights like patterns, maneuvers, and approaches?

I do my approaches every couple months to keep very current IFR and every 6 months I do slow flight, power on/off stalls, and go-arounds. I don’t do touch n goes in complex aircraft so the go-arounds help with flow on a low approach. The M20E is new to me and actually the lowest powered complex plane I’ve owned. It’s a little eye opening because Im used to a massive rate of climb and Mooney’s aren’t know for that. I find the Mooney fun to fly but do have to plan for the change in performance.