I think the 2 hour a month generalization is misleading. If you fly once
a month, for 2 hours, then you're probably rusty. If you fly once a
week, for a 1/2 hour, which has several takeoffs and landings, then
you're probably staying as sharp as anyone else (other than the guys who
are lucky enough to fly every day).

True enough.

I wasn't referring to the guys who fly the pattern for 30 minutes a week. I
know several of them, and they are probably the best pilots around.

In fact, we hear one guy on Unicom at the inn practically every sunny day.
(He has a very pronounced accent, so we recognize him instantly.) The guy
apparently owns his own plane, and NEVER leaves the pattern. He's probably
got more landings than I do, in the 18 months I've been hearing him!

Those guys don't worry me. It's the ones who don't open the hangar for four
months, and THEN go fly that scare me. I'm sure in a few flights they're
back up to speed, but I've still got to share the sky with them while they
are trying to figure out how to enter the pattern again...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"