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real life use of general aviation for this newsgroup
I've checked my log book, and it looks like almost all of my flights
are XC of one sort or another. That is, the airplane is pretty much used the way I use my car. It's a convenient way to make a trip that's a few hundred to a thousand miles long. Not all of the trips are necessary (just as not all of the car trips I make are necessary, either). Very few flight legs terminate at the same airport as where the flight started. If you're a fairly experienced pilot -- say 300 plus hours -- what is your usage profile like? My sense, and it could be very wrong, is that we use GA as a tool: there's no doubt we like flying, and probably like me you're happy to be flying, but you have other things to do when you land. For instance, a typical non-business flight for me to Nantucket Island (off Cape Cod, MA, USA) and that brings back memories of cobblestone streets and flowers in gardens behind fences, rather than the CAVU conditions of the flight. It might bring back different memories if required an approach to minimums in fog, but that would be the exception. I expect glider pilots will have a different take -- as best I can tell, that tribe makes no excuses, they fly for the sole pleasure of flying. |
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