I don't find 26 hours a year "shockingly low". I have both the money
and the schedule to fly as much as I want to, and I am acutely aware
that I lose my edge if I haven't flown in two or especially three
weeks. I really watch the Weather Underground for clear days, and if
the Cub is available I try to book it for two or three hours so I can
go somewhere. Yet I find it very difficult to average 50 hours a year.
Part of this is the New Hampshire winter, part of it is the
desirability of the Cub I want to fly, part of it may simply be that
this has been a rainy year altogether. And part of it of course is
that I have other demands on my time, though I don't have to punch a
time clock.

If I did have a job, I'm sure that I would have been one of those
26-hour pilots, and I probably would have given up altogether. Perhaps
my piloting was acquired too late in life, or perhaps the Cub is
particularly unforgiving of rusty pilots.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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