ORIGINAL: Crashem

After reading the many posts on flying and the amount og time it takes to learn I decided to to a little math and came up with some interesting numbers. Please note I'm basing my figures on what I consider to be an average northeastern (US) flying season and what I've seen to be typical of most of the flyers in my area others can and will draw different conclusions

First my Assumptions

1. Duration of Flying Season 6 months (approx 24 weeks)
2. Numbers of times one will be able to fly per week 2
3. Number of flights per seesion 4 (based on about 12-15 minutes per flight)
4. .40 Sized Trainer with 10oz fuel tank

Now the numbers based on these assumptions

1. 48 trips to the field

2. 48 minutes of flying time per trip for a 2304 minutes of total flying time per season (38.4 hours)

3. 192 total flights per season

4. 1920 oz of fuel consumed or (10.2 gallons) per season (Yes I may have over estimated fuel consumption a bit)


So after flying for an entire season you will have consumed under 11 gal of fuel and flown under 40 hours.


What do you think? especially considering how quickly some want to move on to the next plane.