Rick6a
Well Known Member
If you ever watched "My Name is Earl," you know that in an effort to right past wrongs, Earl has a list of names to cross off. Each time he finally crosses a name off his personal list, he get closer to fulfilling his goal.
While my goal may be easy for paid professional pilots to attain, not nearly so simple is it for the PP SEL subspecies to meet. Long before Earl came around, I set a rather uncomplicated flying goal and wonder if anyone else has done the same. My goal is to have logged PIC time every single day of the year, including the occasional February 29. Some open days, the weather has been so lousy I just thought to myself, "I'll defer to NEXT year." On other occasions prior appointments, family obligations, a grounded airplane, or other circumstances prevented me from logging PIC time on an earmarked day. A few times, the weather was so marginal I simply flew a single circuit around the airport just to be able check that day off my dwindling personal list. Currently, only six unflown days remain to be checked off and all dates are scattered over two months in late winter, early spring. If history is any guide, it is unlikely all six dates will be conveniently checked off in the upcoming time period.
From time to time I have shared this rather modest goal with other private pilots. It is usually met with a vacant stare. Not one has ever said the thought occurred to them. Since there is nothing new under the sun, I have to believe that surely, other pilots have set the same goal, have you?
While my goal may be easy for paid professional pilots to attain, not nearly so simple is it for the PP SEL subspecies to meet. Long before Earl came around, I set a rather uncomplicated flying goal and wonder if anyone else has done the same. My goal is to have logged PIC time every single day of the year, including the occasional February 29. Some open days, the weather has been so lousy I just thought to myself, "I'll defer to NEXT year." On other occasions prior appointments, family obligations, a grounded airplane, or other circumstances prevented me from logging PIC time on an earmarked day. A few times, the weather was so marginal I simply flew a single circuit around the airport just to be able check that day off my dwindling personal list. Currently, only six unflown days remain to be checked off and all dates are scattered over two months in late winter, early spring. If history is any guide, it is unlikely all six dates will be conveniently checked off in the upcoming time period.
From time to time I have shared this rather modest goal with other private pilots. It is usually met with a vacant stare. Not one has ever said the thought occurred to them. Since there is nothing new under the sun, I have to believe that surely, other pilots have set the same goal, have you?
