Dear all,
I just had a good week (hope everyone did!), flying hard IFR or at night with kids and such and I was reflecting on how it happened as I felt completely rusty a couple of months ago. Then I realized that I had done 2 IFR training sessions and one sim session in the past 15 days, which brings my ratio training / total hours to about 25% over the last 2 weeks.
Going through my logbook, that ratio seems to hover around 20-25%. (800TT including 70hrs PPL, 40hrs IFR, 16hrs CPL, 30hrs insurance-mandated dual for the twin and 50 hours tailwheel/ultralight/bfrs/ipcs).
What’s yours?
PS: the “good week” includes miserably missing out a NOTAM closing an airfield for non-based aircraft (to my defense it got published between the flight preparation & the flight, but still), so let’s never lower our guard!
I practically don’t do any training at all but I fly few hours every week, averaging 150 hours per year. I feel that some simulator time would improve my emergency situations handling skills but I simply can’t find to do that.
15% of my hours were dual
My ratio leans sightly more towards the training side, around ⅓ if my time is training.
But on the other hand, I have only about 330 hours and keep on doing new things. If I hadn’t been adding new differences trainings and ratings, I’d be 20%ish.
I have about 60 hours TT and my ratio is more like 90% training. I barely flew solo after the PPL, as most of my flights were either instruction on new types or check rides for new schools. The fact that I moved very shortly after the PPL and then had to change schools twice due to various problems didn’t help…
I have 1600 TT. For the first 3 years my training time was 20%, as you learn new things. Thereafter it became episodic with big spurts of dual as trained for FAA PPL, FAA IR, Complex Rating, Turbine rating, And more recently EASA IR.
I am usually 60h/year about 20% dual (I also add 60h in gliders/motor-gliders and instrument simulator at home), I also found 15% dual vs all years total
The rusty feeling never go in winter, this year I felt more current as got chance to fly in Florida but previous winters were interesting (I don’t do channel crossing between Oct-Mar and grass airfields for local fun flying is always waterlogged )
My logbook shows 2594 TT and 196 dual.
A smidge over 1% of almost 20,000 hours
140h PUT on a total time of 540h now