I only have it for 2016
A day is a lost day when one can not learn something new I just learned how to use Excel the proper way to count the number of airfields visited and to do the ranking. The magic function is called “Pivot Table” and does it all with no more than five mouse clicks. Number of airfields visited: 290 (+ the gliding site where I started flying gliders. I never entered those flights in my electronic logbook).
These are the top 20 since I have my own aeroplane bought 3 years ago. First 3 airports don’t count (homebase, secondary base and maintenance base).
Most are airstrips without ICAO codes.
145 AS ALI NETTUNO
45 LIRL – LATINA
12 LIRZ – PERUGI
11 AS TERNI
6 LIQF – SANSEPOLCRO
5 AS MENSANELLO
5 AS MONTECCHIO
4 LIRU – L’URBE
3 LIAP – L’AQUILA
3 LICR – REGGIO CALABRIA
3 LIRJ – ELBA
3 LIRV – VITERBO
3 AS CELANO
2 LIDA – ASIAGO
2 LIDP – PAVULLO
2 LIQN – RIETI
2 LIRH – FROSINONE
2 AS CASTIGLIONE
2 AS MONTAGNANA
2 AS PEGASO
2 AS SABAUDIA
2 AS SERRISTORI
1 LGKR – CORFU’
Nowhere near as exotic as some…
EGBK Northampton / Sywell 10 LFRC Cherbourg-Maupertus 8 KHND Henderson Executive 7 EGDL RAF Lyneham 7 EGHN Sandown / Isle of Wight 6 LFAT Le Touquet 6 EGBS Shobdon 6 EGHJ Bembridge 5 EGHF Lee On Solent 4 EGKA Shoreham 4 LFAC Calais-Dunkerque 4 LFBH La Rochelle-Île de Ré 4 LFQB Troyes-Barberey 4 EGCV Sleap 4 EGHA Compton Abbas 4 EGLS Old Sarum 3 LFGI Dijon Darois 2 EGTC Cranfield 2 EGMC Southend 2 EGHH Bournemouth 2 LFBS Biscarrosse Parentis 2
Total airfields visited 54
what_next wrote:
The top 20 entries are very much biased by my instructing […]
02 EDVE 167
Do you bring your students personally to the theoretical exams at the LBA, or is this the bias for automotive supplier customers. ;-)
my top twenty: looks I am LKKU centric but more than half of LKKU landings are with Zlin Z-226 and rope attached ;-). Funny to see position 1 and ratio of night and day landings. LKTB is my secondary base.
my gliding and UL excluded as only on paper. With them total number of airports visited would be around 80, some of airport were DEP only so not in the list. Still way to go.
regarding EDVE – Do you bring your students personally to the theoretical exams at the LBA, or is this the bias for automotive supplier customers. ;-)
More generally the automotive industry…
With lots of new people on EuroGA, it’s time to bump this thread
I can’t be bothered to type my logbook into a spreadsheet!
It wouldn’t be anything very impressive. As an educated guess I’d say the most frequent destinations were Le Touquet (LFAT), Duxford (EGSU) and perhaps Gloucestershire (EGBJ). Furthest away from home base (White Waltham, EGLM) would be Angouleme (LFBU).
Lately I have made a point of trying to go somewhere new whenever I fly. Last two have been Gamston (EGNE) and Cardiff (EGFF).
LeSving wrote:
competition for all club members
How about a game of airfield Scrabble? Over one year, use the first letter of a visited airfield’s main name to get points, and add them up, e.g. Shoreham = S = 1 point; or Quiberon = Q = 10 points. Also, triple point bonuses for highest, lowest, farthest north/south etc, e.g. Courchevel = 3x 3 = 9. I can see an adjudicator will be needed as most airports are binomial City-Town, so does Midden-Zeeland count as an M or a Z?