Every year the software we use for flying puts out this recap that summarizes your history for the year. Here’s mine!
The downside of being a flight instructor is that you don’t get to go very far on a day-to-day basis. Every one of the far edges of that graph is a mission we flew to go pick up one or more new airplanes. Put it all together though and I flew from Sacramento to Orlando, and Colorado to Houston.
All of those listed landings are the ones that either I did myself, or had to help a student with. Add probably a couple hundred more for landings where the student did it all themselves. It’s also worth noting that the distances are straight-line distances between landing points, not true flight distances. So a lot of the flights I took don’t actually count towards that number because we take off, fly about 20 miles away, fly in circles for an hour, and then fly home. Just student/instructor life.
Lots of repetition that doesn’t get shown. You see KGLE once for example, but I was there 87 times in 2025!
Still, a pretty cool visualization of my first full calendar year of flying!
As of today I have 994.4 hours in my logbook. 519 hours of it is time I’ve spent teaching someone. 140 of it is at night, and 362 of it is doing cross-country trips (more than 50 miles), 134 of it is solo with nobody else in the airplane, 49 of it is in ICON Seaplanes, 12 of it is in Aztec multi-engine airplanes.
As of today if I can average 3.5 hours per day of flying I’ll hit 1500 hours on June 19th, the 2-year anniversary of my first flight.