For those of us that spend more time at the field than work/home then 200+ flights per year is easy to obtain. My average is well over 400 per season and our season is basically mid/late March to late November/early december. For those of us that compete then in most cases your first 40+ flights are trim flights, then you get into practicing.

Now looking at the quoted numbers and assume you can fly all year round if you want to barring weather related stuff, lets say you fly 4 flights on Saturday and 4 flights on Sunday. You do this 40 times a year. So 8 times 40 equals 320 total flights (8 flights over the weekend and 40 weekends) and that is just on weekends and I used 40 as an arbitrary number assuming 2 weeks vacation and 10 weekends where weather/family issues keeps you grounded. This also assumes you only use 1 plane the whole time. I usually take 2 planes with me and fly both of them 4 times in a day so now that is 8 flights per day, 16 per weekend.

And I am not even adding in those late afternoon, summer evening flights throughout the week.

So all in all you will at least break even in the first year as well as save a little bit and then the savings really kick in on the second year, assuming the planes expiration date is at least two years.

As I said, I'm not the average hobby pilot. I love to fly and compete and I fly allot so for me gas is the way to go. Your mileage will definitely vary