Aviation frustration

bike21 said:
At this point I would love to have some of your problems. Commuting to reserve, flying long days in crap weather and never being home tends to do that to a guy. Hopefully we can all balance out our flying needs sooner than later :)
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:yeahthat:I can't stop flying and would like to spend more time at home.
 
May I include skydiving in this thread? Over the summer I made about 130 jumps. Since I started flying I've made 4. The best one those was a four-way at Perris Valley Skydiving.
 
I flew one leg to the city where I am presently enjoying the hospitality of a Hampton Inn. We'll sit here for five days staring at the wall. Then we'll fly one leg home.
 
t-cart said:
Is this normal for your operation Zap?
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Hey T-cart: It would be interesting to know how your flying time broke down this year - how much between Jan-March, then how much you flew between April-October, and then how much in the off-season.
 
Try being furloughed and not having any money to go flying as much as you want. It's pretty hard when you take the dogs for a walk on a nice day and the planes are buzzing over your head and just laughing at you :D

I'm still hoping for that perfect corporate job where you'll fly a couple hundred hours a year and you can still have a social life, not like the airlines.
 
CRJDriver said:
I'm still hoping for that perfect corporate job where you'll fly a couple hundred hours a year and you can still have a social life, not like the airlines.
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Shh don't post this on the internet, people will catch on :)
 
wayway8 said:
Does anybody else get frustrated when they aren't able to fly for a few days? I'm on SoCal and have been rained out most of this week. I notice that I'm a bit short-tempered with the girlfriend.

It's like sexual frustration, only with planes.
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I have flown once since September 1st, 2008. I logged 1.4 hours doing a BFR.

I might be able to wrangle a checkout this summer, and maybe I'll fly my wife around for an hour or two after that.

Otherwise flying is WAY too expensive for our budget.
 
Well, hope everyone who wants to fly can and those of us who could use some quality time at home get it. Feast or famine it seems. Good luck everyone :)
 
My last two trips (8 days a piece, for the past month) I've spent my time sitting in a hotel room waiting on maintenance to figure out why my engine is missing or pulsing in RPM's... logging 5 hours a month does wonders for ones career.
 
Hawks said:
May I include skydiving in this thread? Over the summer I made about 130 jumps. Since I started flying I've made 4. The best one those was a four-way at Perris Valley Skydiving.
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I'm wearing my Perris Valley Skydiving shirt right now! I did my first and only (so far) jump there two years ago.

To the OP, all I can say is, this has been unusual weather for SoCal and I got no sympathy. I lived there for a couple years, then moved to the Northeast. I went from no cancellations ever for weather to 30% of my flights.
 
Today was my 2nd day off this month. Our 135 operation has had its busiest month ever, even with this crappy weather.
 
January thru mid April are slow months for me with hardly any flying to be done. Around the first of May we pick up and by the end of the month we are rolling full out. Usually getting to the airstrip around 5:15-5:30 am and running till a little after dark which is normally around 9:00pm. Long long days. This continues on thru around the middle of August and then depending on whether we have much cotton or not, we will (or not) continue on into October/early November.

When I was flying "full time", I have put over 1000 hrs in. Normal average year was around 700-750. Now I'm happy at around 400. I hope to do around 300 in the mosquito Aztec this year.
 
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