Flying Superlatives

[skydvrboy]

Do any of you guys track your own personal records?  My new logbook has a place in the back for "Records and Notes" so I thought, what a great place to track my personal records.

So far I have the following (some that will be hard for me to beat):

• Farthest airport from home
• Highest/lowest airport (Leadville/Furnace Creek)
• Longest non-stop flight
• Shortest cross country flight (5.4 nm)
• Longest/shortest runway used (13,503'/1,400')
• Longest night flight
• Most Young Eagles in a single day

If you track any personal records, what have you tracked that I'm missing?

[MooneyMitch]

I always noted for each flight, who my passenger(s)was(were), and what activities /adventures/visits were experienced at my destination .  
I enjoy reminiscing about my life by visiting all my log books occasionally….. 50 years of flying!  Lucky me !! 

[wood_fly]

That's a nifty idea. When I was a young corporate pilot, most Captains had a big map with pins of all the places they had been. I started that with Google Earth. As a young CFI in California, I didn't hit all the airports, but came close. Many pins now sit in housing developments... But I think that's a really cool idea.

[midlifeflyer]

I browse my logbook, sometimes to reminisce, but I leave MyFlightBook to those types of milestones. My page shows over 20, including highest and lowest airports, number of airports I've landed in, number of states I've landed in,  number of countries/continents I've flown in, when I logged by 25th different model of airplane, that type of stuff.  Some you don't necessarily want to know, like the longest streak of not flying. 

[N201MKTurbo]

13 hours ago, skydvrboy said:

Do any of you guys track your own personal records?  My new logbook has a place in the back for "Records and Notes" so I thought, what a great place to track my personal records.

So far I have the following (some that will be hard for me to beat):

• Farthest airport from home
• Highest/lowest airport (Leadville/Furnace Creek)
• Longest non-stop flight
• Shortest cross country flight (5.4 nm)
• Longest/shortest runway used (13,503'/1,400')
• Longest night flight
• Most Young Eagles in a single day

If you track any personal records, what have you tracked that I'm missing?

When I wrote my own logbook software, I had queries for that sort of stuff. I had total airports, number of airports per state, number of states. I miss those things. I use ForeFlight now. If they would let us do custom queries, we could get all those things.

[N201MKTurbo]

I haven’t messed with it, but ForeFlight has custom reports that would probably get you that information.

[N201MKTurbo]

13 hours ago, skydvrboy said:

Do any of you guys track your own personal records?  My new logbook has a place in the back for "Records and Notes" so I thought, what a great place to track my personal records.

So far I have the following (some that will be hard for me to beat):

• Farthest airport from home
• Highest/lowest airport (Leadville/Furnace Creek)
• Longest non-stop flight
• Shortest cross country flight (5.4 nm)
• Longest/shortest runway used (13,503'/1,400')
• Longest night flight
• Most Young Eagles in a single day

If you track any personal records, what have you tracked that I'm missing?

 BTW, I have landed at both Leadville and Furnace Creek. Doing them in the same flight would be cool.

[Ragsf15e]

17 minutes ago, N201MKTurbo said:

 BTW, I have landed at both Leadville and Furnace Creek. Doing them in the same flight would be cool.

Might be longest xc flight for some of us too!

edit: never mind, I would have thought it was farther, but 528nm in a Mooney is nothing!

[MikeOH]

3 minutes ago, Ragsf15e said:

Might be longest xc flight for some of us too!

No fair getting refueled in flight!

[Ragsf15e]

2 minutes ago, MikeOH said:

No fair getting refueled in flight!

Yes, im sure @201er has a longer one, but Mtn Home Idaho to Lajes Portugal is tough to beat!

[N201MKTurbo]

1 hour ago, Ragsf15e said:

Yes, im sure @201er has a longer one, but Mtn Home Idaho to Lajes Portugal is tough to beat!

And how many times did you have to hit the tanker?

I had a friend who did Okinawa to San Francisco in an F4. He flew in formation with the tanker(s) the whole way.

[Ragsf15e]

20 minutes ago, N201MKTurbo said:

And how many times did you have to hit the tanker?

I had a friend who did Okinawa to San Francisco in an F4. He flew in formation with the tanker(s) the whole way.

Oh yeah, the normal thing is to stay with the tanker the whole way.  One reason is that you actually keep all the jets pretty much topped off the whole way so that if someone has a refueling system failure, they can still make a divert field.  So you refuel about every 45 minutes or so.  The other reason is that we didn’t have hf comms for the oceanic atc.  Tanker dealt with all the comms.  We just played trivia with the boom operator, refueled and ate snacks.  Oh, and cycled a lot of water from camel backs to piddle packs!

[Fly Boomer]

2 minutes ago, Ragsf15e said:

Oh yeah, the normal thing is to stay with the tanker the whole way.

Range anxiety for sure.

[phxcobraz]

21 hours ago, N201MKTurbo said:

I haven’t messed with it, but ForeFlight has custom reports that would probably get you that information.

You can also export your foreflight logbook data to a csv and then run queries on that for whatever you want. 

I could see a simple sql database setup to match the fields, then just import the csv to sql to then easily query it.

[N201MKTurbo]

8 minutes ago, phxcobraz said:

You can also export your foreflight logbook data to a csv and then run queries on that for whatever you want. 

I could see a simple sql database setup to match the fields, then just import the csv to sql to then easily query it.

I was hoping for a little less work than that, plus you would to export, import and query every time you wanted new results.

[phxcobraz]

16 minutes ago, N201MKTurbo said:

I was hoping for a little less work than that, plus you would to export, import and query every time you wanted new results.

Yea that part sucks, wish there was an API you could grab the data with from FF.

[midlifeflyer]

22 hours ago, N201MKTurbo said:

When I wrote my own logbook software, I had queries for that sort of stuff. I had total airports, number of airports per state, number of states. I miss those things. I use ForeFlight now. If they would let us do custom queries, we could get all those things.

I did the same with my own logbook software.

17 minutes ago, N201MKTurbo said:

I was hoping for a little less work than that, plus you would to export, import and query every time you wanted new results.

I can't help with Foreflight's reports since I never moved to it, but if you wrote your own before, it doesn't sound like pulling down the csv doing the query(ies), retaining as a template and updating the database as needed would be a big deal for you. Although MyFlighBook has greater internal query capability than Foreflight, I still find the need to update the Excel file and do a custom inquiry from time to time. 

[phxcobraz]

There is an API for it, might have to mess with this.

 

https://public-api.foreflight.com/swagger/index.html

 

 

Edit: eehhhhhh looks like no logbook data

[tcal780]

I should do that too. For instance, yesterday, I flew my first approach in IMC to minimums. Almost as fun as first solo!

It was at Bay Bridge W29.

[Fly Boomer]

7 minutes ago, tcal780 said:

I should do that too.

Not hard if you know your way around Excel.

[Flash]

9 hours ago, tcal780 said:

I flew my first approach in IMC to minimums

Congratulations! It is definitely a wonderful feeling.