74 hours for me. Most on an RV10, a few on microlights, and with 14 on a gazelle helicopter :-)
Forgot to mention, as nonPIC, I flew in a MH1521 Broussard and landed/took off from a private strip. Both first for me, lot of fun !!
For me the Atlantic crossing via the Azores in March definitely was the highlight this year.
I did 220 hours as PIC in total in 2018. 64 hours were instructing and about 15 more were passenger flights, all on our club’s Cessnas. The rest was on our Mooney. I landed at 33 new-to-me air fields in 13 different countries.
For 2019 I expect fewer hours, we don’t have plans for big journeys but will certainly fly around Europe a bit.
Last year I said
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In 2018 I will need to find somewhere new to fly as I’ll be moving cities so taking the time to find a new club may lower the amount of hours possible in a year (recommendations in the Cologne area would be very welcome!). I’d like to get checked out on something with more weight than I’m used to (the 750kg A210) and fly myself back “home” to the UK to visit friends and family, and join in the EuroGA fly in in Cambridge. Learn more about maintenance and the general mechanics of the aircraft. Nothing too ambitious but I’d like to continue to build my hours and maybe re-study some of the theory/find a mentor that can make sure I’m not missing things. To be honest I feel like flying should be far harder than this, I must be missing something…
Well, I found a new home base (EDKB) with three months grounded between clubs. I got checked out on the PA28 which does of course weigh a litte more than an A210. My trip back home to the UK had to be canned last minute after delaying my flight plan a few times thanks to en-route weather. I did join in the EuroGA Cambridge fly in. Maintenance and general mechanics will be improved next year as I’ve been offered an apprenticeship as an aircraft maintenance engineer (nothing like a career change to ground you for a couple of years!). I had an introduction to spin training which one day I’ll complete. 35 hours logged in total which cleared me out financially so I expect next year will unfortunately be the absolute bare minimum amount of hours to stay current, if anything at all.
On that note, if anybody around the EDKB area has a spare seat up front they would like to donate at some point then I would be glad to join you!
All the best for 2019, everyone!
72 hours, but my plane was down (separate) months for maintenance… top overhaul, magneto replacement, brake repair, etc… My goal for 2019 is to get my FAA IR, sell my plane and by an N-Reg tourer. The flying I did I liked though: Greek islands, Sicily, Calabria, Rome, Venice, the Balkans, so it was pretty fun.
180 hours, almost exclusively UL.
Highlights: Spain tour with an UL formation and one day up and down to Poland in the impressive TBM of @loco . I don’t know where the ‘B’ stands for, but The T and M can only mean Time Machine.
Aspiration for 2019: Make the same or more hours and do another Spain tour and if I dare even venture into Europe 
A good flying year for me, 53 hours. Particularly memorable: two multi-day trips to The Netherlands (one work, one holiday); an overnight to Perranporth; a flight around the M25 in the dark; and a short dual flight in a Magister.
Desires for 2019: that no-one breaks the shareoplane this year and that Henlow is somehow reprieved from closure.
115 hours in 2018, my all time record, despite having the plane in maintenance for a month in the middle of summer!
2018 was a true breakthrough in my flying “career”, mainly thanks to having and using IR and owning a capable aircraft (SR22), which allows me to travel with the whole family (4 of us in total).
Personal achievements in 2018:
- more than 90% of flights were trips with some purpose (business or pleasure) and only very few were local flights without any specific purpose
- flight to Aero Expo
- flight to Rotterdam + Lydd, UK (including my longest flight ever – EPBC-EHRD – over 5h thanks to strong headwinds)
- 2 flights to Greek island – logistics wise these were the most challenging flights, as well as the most expensive as far as airport/handling fees were concerned!
- flight to Grenchen, Switzerland
I wish that business issues prevented me from doing our longest planned trip for 2018 – from Poland to Portugal…
Aspirations for 2019:
- make at least the same and preferably even more hours than in 2018
- research rebasing plane to proper IFR airport for winter months as right now I’m based at VFR only airfield, which significantly limits dispatch rate during winter months
- visit again Aero Expo
- potentially participate in the euroga fly-in in Lido
- at least 1 trip to one of Greek islands
- trip to Portugal with a stopovers in Switzerland and south of France
90h in 2018 with a fair mix (30h glider, 30h touring, 30h local fun/vintage), trying to keep the same pace in 2019
I finished up 2018 with a nice flight over London in a DA42 twin as pax (29/12/2018) and a good start on 2019 with a vintage fly-in super-cub along a sea fury (01/01/2019), so ready for 2019 goals:
- Get Night, get CBIR and gliding Gold Badge
- Fly vintage to France and do some flying in the US
- Do ATPL TK exams (like my Jan19 gym subscription: seems like a long shot !!)
So I am new to this board. I got my PPL in 2017 after my first flght in Sept 2017. 56 hrs that year.
2018 I have done 250hrs, Achieved my FAA IR and EASA IR. I collected my SR22T in June and spent 4 weeks flying coast to coast in the US (Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, San Fran, LA, San Diego, Sedona, Lake Powell, Oshkosh (!), Keys, Florida and New York).
2019 I would like to do 200hrs and do a nice trip in Summer to Southern Europe coast and I am hoping to get the plans together for a trip down to Cape Town to take my aging Mum flying in SA.
