Jay Honeck wrote:

As I sit on the ground, on a day off, not flying due to (yet more)
ice, I thought I'd share these interesting results with the group...

Here is my way of looking at it. I've flown 421.2 hours since getting
my instrument rating. Of that, 23.9 was simulated instrument for
training so I'll exclude that. A lot was local flying, but I don't have
any easy way to exclude that so I won't, but that would change the
numbers even further.

I have flown 95.7 hours of actual. So the percentage of my flights that
were in actual is 95.7/397.3 = 24%. And these are mostly flights I
couldn't have made VFR. The percentage would be even higher if I was
counting only my cross country flight time, but that would take a while
to figure. Even so, 24% is a significant increase in dispatch rate.
And trust me, when I was flying on business, it seemed that the bad
weather always occurred on a day I needed to be at a meeting 500 miles away!

So, I think in the northeast your 9% rate is way too low. And it is
probably way too high for the southwest!


Matt