Aviation Goals for 2021

Get my private pilot certificate - checkride is scheduled for end of January, so fingers crossed I check that off early! :)

Otherwise, not much. I want to take my family up (for their first rides in a "little" plane!!), and start studying for the instrument rating while I save up the cash for said rating.
 
BrianNC said:
Already have commercial and instrument. Would like to finally get the multi this year.

Also begin to travel. I've never done an overnighter with a plane before in over 40 years of flying since I don't own my own plane. I can do it with this club plane. Just have to get my wife on board.
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texasclouds said:
I still haven’t done an overnight after 2 yrs and 1000 hrs of flying. Add that one to my list also!
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No overnight flights? o_O If they simply don't allow it that's no fun.

I've been able to do that since after I got my PPL. Just checked, 3 months after PPL at just over 80 hours total time. Now, they had minimum hours per day, but that usually wasn't too much trouble.

When I switched to a group that was more of a club than flight school the minimum hrs/day were much better at 2 hrs/day and the rate was dry, so we weren't paying for fuel we didn't burn. Then I got into a couple of non-equity partnerships with no minimums; one after the other. Last fall I bought into the LLC owning the plane I fly now.

Having lower daily minimums certainly made it easier to do longer trips. Although part of that is we did longer trips, so we were flying more hours on a trip.
 
wayne said:
As we are now wrapping up 2020, thank goodness, we can start looking ahead to 2021. Yes, it will be a foggy year for our crystal balls, but at least this time we know that versus the surprise we got early this year.

So, what are you hoping to accomplish in 2021?
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My goals used to be ambitious, like "get back up to 120 hours/year" or "fly to Newfoundland" or "fly enough hard IFR to keep recent without sim/hood time." For 2021, they have become very modest:
  1. Get my plane's annual wrapped up -- I need a few pieces sent out for welding, and shipping is slow around Christmas.
  2. Find a way to safely complete my 2-year Transport Canada Instrument Proficiency Check in the spring.
  3. Fly a long cross-country where I stay overnight somewhere else, rather than all same-day round-robins from my home airport (once it's safe and responsible to do so).
  4. Renew my medical in December 2021.
 
Have a medical professional use the words "cancer-free", "BasicMed", and "yes" within a few sentences of each other.

Edit: Also, hand off The Monkey to someone for adventures...
 
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I sold my plane in 2020 and moved north to a place where I knew it couldn't be hangared. We had 8 inches of snow last week so I'm good. That said, I've talked to the kind of near flight school and will get my flight review (elapsed in Nov) and start renting in the Spring. I've been flight planning to a lot of interesting airports within a couple of hours.
 
Tailwheel is on the list for next US trip!
 
I'd like to fly as much as I did in 2020. I flew from New Jersey to Wisconsin (and back) 3 times in 2020 and I hope to have the freedom to fly more cross-countries in 2021.
 
SkyChaser said:
Get my private pilot certificate - checkride is scheduled for end of January, so fingers crossed I check that off early! :)

Otherwise, not much. I want to take my family up (for their first rides in a "little" plane!!), and start studying for the instrument rating while I save up the cash for said rating.
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Honestly, same. I was supposed to finish my ppl in 2020, but that didn't happen. Also hoping to finish my glider add-on sometime in the summer.
 
While not an aviation goal, I do plan on getting better letters in Words with Friends in 2021

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  • Join COVID & worry free fly-in lunch meet with POA gang.
  • Fly an overnight trip to somewhere in my Seneca.
  • Replace the ADI.
  • Hit 20,000 hour mark (delayed by COVID this year).
 
JuggyJet said:
  • Join COVID & worry free fly-in lunch meet with POA gang.
  • Fly an overnight trip to somewhere in my Seneca.
  • Replace the ADI.
  • Hit 20,000 hour mark (delayed by COVID this year).
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  • Add one more... reach 50 POA posts, so I can post Classified Ad threads.
 
Big year for flying.

1. I should be able to get my 172 up within the week with newer (older avionics - GDL88, gns 480, sl30, gmx200. I would like to get my commercial ASAP, as well as CFI.

2. I got a whole year. I finished all my rotary wing phases but never took the check ride. I should do that.

3. I have to get the mooney annulled and flying again.

4. Im debating selling one of the planes and buying a twinco or...either way, getting my multi shouldn’t take more than a week.

Everything else is gravy. I’d like to burn some kerosene before the end of the year. :)
 
Going to try and get the B-25 Type Rating. Also thinking of buying a plane next year.
 
  • Finish up commercial
  • Oshkosh!!
  • Get more proficient
  • Bucket list flights: Outer Banks, tip of long island, Maine; basically NE US.
  • Get foldable bikes to take in airplane and explore and exercise in new places.
  • Someday to Merritt Island, FL (KCOI)...where I grew up
 
Starting my CFI and CFII in Jan using my remaining VA benefits. Hope to also finish the MEII.

Hope to get a new interior in the 310 and fly it 100 hours in 2021 checking out cool places.


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I’m at 132 hours flying this year so far and might get in 1-2 more flights this year, earned my PPL, waiting for the instrument checkride (Jan 2021), started commercial training. For 2021, I hope to find a good plane, get my commercial and CFI and go on a couple cross country trips with my dogs and other half. :)
 
You can make the word SUN hehe or NUN.
 
I’d really like to go to Oshkosh again. Skipped 2019 (first time I’d missed it in over a decade because work was crazy and we had a new baby at home so I figured I could miss it one year) and then 2020 happened...

Other than that, it’s not really a goal but I expect to fly an additional 150+ hours of multi engine jet time which will help with insurance in the future and I may go for COM / ATP as well just for fun.
 
I did a solo xc to Oshkosh. Hehe. Let’s say I want to go to Oshkosh this year, can you just fly in and park there or do you need to reserve a parking spot. I’m a newbie.
 
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