What is you total time to # of landing ratio?

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I was just getting my logbook in order for a FR. My (total time /# of landings) is .95.

Work has kept me from flying as much as I would like but this year I have averaged 1 flight per week. My flights are normally about 1.5 hours.

PPL 6/95, highest total time per year 200hrs, lowest is 20hrs.

I don't do as many long cross country flights as I us to but am happy to fly 1.5 to 2 hours a week..:)
 
AKBill said:
I was just getting my logbook in order for a FR. My (total time /# of landings) is .95.

Work has kept me from flying as much as I would like but this year I have averaged 1 flight per week. My flights are normally about 1.5 hours.

PPL 6/95, highest total time per year 200hrs, lowest is 20hrs.

I don't do as many long cross country flights as I us to but am happy to fly 1.5 to 2 hours a week..:)
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Bill, do you ever fly to Sitka for lunch or dinner? Great cafe in the terminal. Open until 7PM.
 
I don’t know my time ratio. I suspect it’s around .9 because I tend to spend time banging out landings. Less recently.

I do know my ratio of takeoffs to great landings is 1:1.
 
0.55 hrs per landing

Getting my glider rating this year lowered this a bit. Lots of 10 minute pattern flights.
 
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I don’t keep track of my landings after I got my PP, but you can assume I have at least 1 landing for every flight. If it wasn’t for insurance, IFR currency, and flight reviews I probably wouldn’t log at all. Never had a diary or a journal, not my thing...fortunately it’s automatic these days.


Tom
 
Shepherd said:
Really? This is a thing?
All I care about is do the landings equal takeoffs, and the percentage of landings I walk away from.
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I think its an interesting study or discussion. Not a competition. POA has discussed far more ridiculous things.
 
Somedudeintn said:
25 landings for every hour, or 25 hours for every landing??

Both seem o_O

Maybe you meant 1.25?
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I took it to mean a landing every hour and 25 minutes
 
My typical flight is about 45 minutes and I often do several circuits and landings at the end of every flight... just 'cuz it's so much fun to land a biplane on the grass, especially when you get it just right. If I was flying a Cessna off pavement, it would no doubt be different.
 
A little over 2 hours for me. I don’t really go flying just to fly. It’s all travel for me.
 
Htaylor said:
Bill, do you ever fly to Sitka for lunch or dinner? Great cafe in the terminal. Open until 7PM.
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Yes we do get to Sitka and normally have lunch in the terminal. They serve a mean fish and chips. You also have to get a piece of pie. Coconut banana cream is one of my favorites .

Shepherd said:
Really? This is a thing?
All I care about is do the landings equal takeoffs, and the percentage of landings I walk away from.
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Not a thing Shepherd, just a ratio that came to mind after adding 2 years of flights to my logbook before my FR. Flights are logged in a notebook and I transfer to pilot logbook. Lots of numbers and dates, just trying to make it fun..:rolleyes:
 
Old97 said:
I think its an interesting study or discussion. Not a competition. POA has discussed far more ridiculous things.
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You hit the nail on the head. As posted above just having fun...:)
 
MooneyDriver78 said:
I don’t keep track of my landings after I got my PP, but you can assume I have at least 1 landing for every flight. If it wasn’t for insurance, IFR currency, and flight reviews I probably wouldn’t log at all. Never had a diary or a journal, not my thing...fortunately it’s automatic these days.
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Yeah, for a while I stopped logging every flight, until I realized I was giving inaccurately low annual hours to my insurance, and restarted logging every tenth of an hour of flight time.

My ratio comes to 0.485 hrs/landing.
 
as a 25 hour student who struggled with, and is still not satisfied with, his landings, I have performed 125 landings....so .25 :confused:
 
MooneyDriver78 said:
I don’t keep track of my landings after I got my PP, but you can assume I have at least 1 landing for every flight. If it wasn’t for insurance, IFR currency, and flight reviews I probably wouldn’t log at all. Never had a diary or a journal, not my thing...fortunately it’s automatic these days.


Tom
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Yah my Garmin logs flight hours. It doesn't start the timer till I'm 500 feet AGL I think? I'm thinking that's what you meant by you comment "it's automatic these days". Funny thing is use Tach time, so it's not real accurate...:rolleyes:
 
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About .9 lifetime, since I restarted flying 7 years ago after a 25 yr break about 1.5,
 
Jim K said:
as a 25 hour student who struggled with, and is still not satisfied with, his landings, I have performed 125 landings....so .25 :confused:
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The only thing I can say is, nail the speed and use the same site picture. I like to focus on the end of the runway, works for me.
 
.45 over 50 years... Might reflect the little old airplanes I fly. Used to do cross country in travelin' planes with only necessary stops. Then would take an old plane out around the patch for 10 or 12 landings.
 
Roughly 0.7 hrs/ldg

680 hours total

Edit: added units and total
 
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AKBill said:
Yah my Garmin logs flight hours. It doesn't start the timer till I'm 500 feet AGL I think? I'm thinking that's what you meant by you comment "it's automatic these days". Funny thing is use Tach time, so it's not real accurate...:rolleyes:
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For me I pull my logs off my G5 and EDM and use those to fill out my logs. I don't really track anything but time and landings. If something particularly interesting happened, I might write a short sentence, but even that's rare.
 
0.51
Now compare the ratio responses with total time and create a two variable scatter plot. That might be slightly more interesting
 
0.86 with about 650 hours (though I have 35 additional hours in Africa that I can't log that would bring it to about 0.91)
 
woodchucker said:
0.51
Now compare the ratio responses with total time and create a two variable scatter plot. That might be slightly more interesting
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Yeah, I thought that would matter for me, but it turns out my ration hasn't changed that much. Sure I take 6 hours flights now, but I also do things like this that move the bar the other way.
 
Salty said:
Yeah, I thought that would matter for me, but it turns out my ration hasn't changed that much. Sure I take 6 hours flights now, but I also do things like this that move the bar the other way.
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You are one data point. Statistics demands a few more. :rolleyes:
 
1.89 overall. 2.80 thru PPL. 2.34 thru rest of training, CPL, IFR and MEL. 1.06 since then. Lots of 3 landing flights, I tend to get uncurrent, get annual Flight Reviews and lots of Rental Checkouts.
 
luvflyin said:
1.89 overall. 2.80 thru PPL. 2.34 thru rest of training, CPL, IFR and MEL. 1.06 since then. Lots of 3 landing flights, I tend to get uncurrent, get annual Flight Reviews and lots of Rental Checkouts.
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Did you do it upside down? landings per hour instead of hours per landing?
 
I tend to have more landings per hour than most. I fly my plane at least once a week to keep it exercised. If I can’t find someone to go somewhere, in hate flying along, I usually fly for about an hour and do a lot of T&G’s.
 
DesertNomad said:
0.86 with about 650 hours (though I have 35 additional hours in Africa that I can't log that would bring it to about 0.91)
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Has the statute of limitations ended yet...? Maybe you can claim it now.....
 
AKBill said:
Yes we do get to Sitka and normally have lunch in the terminal. They serve a mean fish and chips. You also have to get a piece of pie. Coconut banana cream is one of my favorites .


Not a thing Shepherd, just a ratio that came to mind after adding 2 years of flights to my logbook before my FR. Flights are logged in a notebook and I transfer to pilot logbook. Lots of numbers and dates, just trying to make it fun..:rolleyes:
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Whew! I thought I had missed an important FAA thing.
 
I was surprised how low my number is, as I do most of my flying on long cross countries, legs 2 to 3 hours, 6 legs to a trip. That is a lot of hours per landing. My flying is 80% cross country.

The trouble is that the long trips are widely spaced, so I do a relatively large number of very short flights to keep night current, and do instrument approaches, and the equivalent to a BFR every year.

That drives the number down to 1.5 hours per landing, from my second log book, with 587 hours in it.
 
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